Ritual Fire Dance (Spanish: Danza ritual del fuego) is a movement of the ballet El amor brujo[1] (The Bewitched Love), written by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla in 1915. It was made popular by the composer's own piano arrangement.[2] The dance has a duration of about three to four and a half minutes.
The work can be associated to 1910 Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee"[3] due to its fast, repetitive trills and ornaments. The piece was also influenced by the traditional, religious ceremony of a fire dance, a dance which was used to worship the fire-god and in which people would often jump through or leap around the fire.[4][5]
- ^ "Manuel de Falla: El amor brujo" by Peter Gutmann (2004), Classical Notes
- ^ "Ritual Fire Dance", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, by Michael Kennedy and Joyce Bourne
- ^ Robin Maconie (2013). Experiencing Stravinsky: A Listener's Companion. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 41ff. ISBN 978-0-8108-8430-4.
- ^ "Fire Dance", streetswing.com
- ^ Patsy Morita. Manuel de Falla – "Ritual Fire Dance" (from El amor brujo) at AllMusic