Alberto Ginastera ["hee-nuh-STER-uh"] wrote twelve "American" works in this genre, while another one of these works was meant to accompany an "Interlude" and "Final Paraphrase" that were never written.
Alberto Ginastera ["hee-nuh-STER-uh"] wrote twelve "American" works in this genre, while another one of these works was meant to accompany an "Interlude" and "Final Paraphrase" that were never written. Works in this genre are known as vorspiel ["VOAR-shpeel"] in German. (*) "The Girl with the Flaxen Hair" is an example of this type of work, as is a piece that opens with a chromatic motif in the flute and is based on a Stephen Mallarmé poem. Claude Debussy composed "[This type of work] to the Afternoon of a Faun." For 10 points, name this genre of short pieces that often precede longer works.
Alberto Ginastera ["hee-nuh-STER-uh"] wrote twelve "American" works in this genre, while another one of these works was meant to accompany an "Interlude" and "Final Paraphrase" that were never written.
preludes