CCSE questions on Music, film and art

✓ Manuel de Falla

Manuel de Falla composed El amor brujo, a work with flamenco music and dance first shown in 1915. Falla, born in Cádiz, is one of the most famous Spanish composers. He also composed El sombrero de tres picos. Joaquín Rodrigo is the author of the Concierto de Aranjuez and Enrique Granados composed Goyescas. To remember: Falla equals ballet and flamenco, Rodrigo equals guitar and Aranjuez.

✓ La guitarra

The guitar is the most typical instrument of flamenco. It goes with the singing and the dancing, together with the palmas (hand claps) and the cajón. Flamenco was born in Andalucía and has been an Intangible Heritage of Humanity since 2010. The gaita is typical of Galicia and Asturias, and the piano is not part of flamenco. A very famous guitarist was Paco de Lucía.

✓ Directora de cine

Isabel Coixet is a Spanish film director, born in Barcelona. She has directed films such as Mi vida sin mí and La librería, and has won several Goya awards. She is one of the best-known Spanish directors inside and outside the country. She is not a singer or a dancer. Another important director is Pilar Miró, who modernised Spanish cinema in the seventies and eighties.