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Ginastera, Alberto : Milonga

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Music ID : 18210
Composition Year:1938 
Instrumentation:Piano Solo 
Genre:Various works
Total Playing Time:2 min 50 sec
Copyright:Under Copyright Protection

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Author : Takagi, Naoki

Last Updated: November 29, 2019
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Author : Mitsuko, Kawabata

Last Updated: January 14, 2024
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

Originally, it was a song titled "Canción al arbol del olvido" (Song of the Tree of Oblivion), set to a poem by the Uruguayan modern poet Fernán Silva Valdés. This "Milonga" is the instrumental version of that song, created for educational purposes for music beginners. Milonga refers to a regional music form that was once recited by payadores (gaucho minstrels) with a guitar in hand. Sung to a rhythm similar to the habanera, it expresses a man's poignant unrequited love: "To forget my feelings for you, I slept under the tree of oblivion, but when I awoke from my dream, what I remembered was vidalitay (meaning beloved woman). Because I forgot to forget you."

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