🇪🇸Enrique Granados ： The Straw Man Goya Scene

Granados’s *The Straw Man (Goya Scene)* is a piano piece that, through light-footed rhythms and vivid gestures, evokes a comic, lively scene centered on a straw man. Within its bouncing motion, sudden accents and changes of dynamics appear, giving the music a mischievous character and forward drive. Fine figures should be articulated clearly without becoming hard; at transitions between scenes, allowing a sense of breath can be effective. Where the melody comes to the foreground, keep the accompaniment light and bring out the phrases with a singing quality. Use pedal only enough to avoid blurring, and carefully shape the contrast between sharp rhythms and richly colored sonorities, one of the work’s main attractions.