Product Description
La
Paloma is a popular Spanish song that
has been produced and reinterpreted in diverse cultures, settings,
arrangements, and recordings over the last 140 years. The song was composed
and written by the Spanish composer from the Basque region Sebastián Iradier
(later Yradier) after he visited Cuba in 1861. Iradier may have composed La Paloma
around 1863, just two years before he died in Spain in obscurity,
never to learn how popular his song would become. La Paloma
belongs to a genre of songs called
Habaneras, a musical style
developed in 19th-century Spain that is still today very much present in the
form of folk songs and formal compositions, particularly in the Northern
Basque Region and East Coast (Catalonia and Valencia) regions of the country.
Like all Habaneras, its characteristic and distinct rhythm
reflects the fusion of the local Cuban songs that the Spanish sailors of the
time brought back with them from their travels to the island, with the rhythm
structure of the flamenco "tanguillo gaditano" (original from Cádiz,
Andalusia). Very quickly La
Paloma became popular outside of
Spain, particularly in Mexico, and soon spread around the world. In many
places, including Afghanistan, Hawaii, the Philippines, Germany, Romania,
Zanzibar, and Goa it gained the status of a quasi-folk song. Over the years
the popularity of La Paloma has surged and receded periodically, but
never subsided. It may be considered one of the first universal popular hits
and has appealed to artists of diverse musical backgrounds.[1] There are more
than one thousand versions of this song, and that together with Yesterday
by the Beatles, is one of the most recorded songs in the history of
music.
Instrumentation: Soprano (Alto), Alto, Tenor, Baritone
(Bass Saxophone)
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