My Guitar Spanish Folk Song Profile

"My Guitar" was originally titled "Romance of Love" Adaptation of a Spanish folk song by Narciso Yepes.

The piece, Romance of Love, has a main theme taken from a traditional Spanish ballad.

In 1952, the director of the French movie "The Forbidden Game" invited Yipes, a famous Spanish guitarist, to compose the score for the movie. In a unique move, Yipes scored the entire movie on a single guitar, and he was the only one who played it.

The theme music of the film was the song "Romance of Love", which was adapted by Yipes from a Spanish folk song. After the release of the film "Forbidden Games", "Romance of Love" was widely circulated and became the reserved repertoire of all the famous guitarists.

The beautiful and pure melody of the piece and the clear decomposition of the chords completely dissolve into one, full of tenderness and romantic atmosphere, "Romance of Love" has even become a synonym for the guitar, is an immortal masterpiece in the guitar song.

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Romance (Romance) is the name of the genre, in the history of Spanish literature and art specifically refers to simple and clear narrative stanzas, often used to express the story of national heroes or dramatic love stories, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries of France, refers to the moving lyrical songs.

After the nineteenth century, it also refers to the narrative song of pure love, the beautiful and pure melody and clear chords completely dissolve into one, giving people a deep impression, and the "Romance of Love" has even become synonymous with the classical guitar.

There are various versions of "Romance of Love", one with a single three-part composition that reproduces the opening section in its entirety, and another with an introductory and interlude section. Both use a moderate Allegro tempo.

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