{"pk":57056,"title":"The Narrative Imperative of Granados’s \"Goyescas\"","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Enrique Granados’s monumental piano suite \nGoyescas \nis widely acknowledged as an important work in the piano-repertoire canon but is infrequently programmed in recitals.  One obstacle to its inclusion is that relatively little is known by the pianistic community about its narrative elements.  Like similar works that contain strong narratives, such as Mussorgsky’s \nPictures at an Exhibition\n or Schumann’s \nCarnaval\n, \nGoyescas\n holds great potential because of its musical variety, its inspired writing, and because it is exciting for musicians to convey extra-musical ideas to an audience in a way that “tells a story.” The 6 movements of \nGoyescas\n are not only narrative vignettes but also part of a larger arc that holds the listener’s attention in the same way as an opera; \nGoyescas \nis, quite simply, a story.  A narrative approach is applied here in order to enhance the meaning of \nGoyescas \nfor performers as well as appreciators, and perhaps will result in an increased receptiveness to the inclusion of this work in the modern recital program.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Enrique Granados"},{"word":"Goyescas"},{"word":"Francisco Goya"},{"word":"Iberia"}],"section":"ARTICLES","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2vt7s843","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kathryn","middle_name":"","last_name":"Koslowsky Schmidt","name_suffix":"","institution":"Independent Scholar","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2020-03-23T16:52:12-07:00","date_accepted":"2020-03-23T16:52:12-07:00","date_published":"2019-12-31T16:00:00-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/diagonal/article/57056/galley/43256/download/"}]}