{"product_id":"goss-don-quixote-yppan","title":"Goss: Don Quixote","description":"\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComposer\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003ca href=\"\/ja\/collections\/stephen-goss\"\u003eStephen Goss (1964-)\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eArranger\u003c\/strong\u003e: David Russell\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eInstrumentation\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"edition-instrumentation\"\u003eGuitar\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"binding hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-barcode\"\u003e9782897964238\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-width\"\u003e8.9\u003c\/span\u003e x \u003cspan class=\"book-length\"\u003e12.0\u003c\/span\u003e inches\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"book-pages\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages\u003c\/strong\u003e: 28\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c!-- split --\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"one-half columns\"\u003e \u003ch4\u003eDescription\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"feature_divider\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003eDon Quixote is a five-movement sonata for guitar based on the celebrated novels by Miguel de Cervantes. After introducing the three principal characters in the opening movements, the music depicts a selection of their various adventures and escapades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first movement we are introduced to Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Quixote's music tries to be sophisticated, educated, and rhetorically quick witted. It doesn't quite manage. Sancho Panza's music is limited, but less pretentious. He can express a great deal with restricted means. Dulcinea is Quixote's true love, everything he does, he does for her. However, he has never actually spoken to her or even met her, and she has no idea that Quixote loves her. She remains a fantasy that lives only in Quixote's imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTilting at Windmills, depicts two of Quixote's most iconic episodes. He sees windmills on the horizon but mistakes them for giants; Sancho Panza tells him otherwise, but Quixote still decides to charge them. It doesn't end well. Later, they observe clouds of dust in the distance, Quixote thinks he sees two armies approaching, so decides the best course of action would be to mount an attack. The armies turn out to be flocks of sheep, but Quixote attacks anyway, killing several sheep in the process. Angry shepherds throw stones at Quixote and Sancho who make a hasty retreat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore being formally knighted (by an innkeeper) Quixote stands watch over his armour throughout the night. During his Vigil of Arms we encounter the delusional Quixote as he sees himself – formal, serious, important, noble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe final movement focusses on an episode from Part II of Cervantes's novel, where Don Quixote and Sancho Panza visit The Puppet Theatre of Master Pedro. Manuel de Falla chose this episode as the basis of his opera El retablo do maese Pedro, and the finale draws on Falla's music in its first two sections, the Fanfare and the Gallardas – a homage to mark the 150th anniversary of Falla's birth in 2026. As Don Quixote watches the puppet play, he believes the characters to be real, not fictional. Eventually, his anger reaches a point where he feels he must intervene with the action. He gets out of his seat, draws his sword, and brutally destroys many of the puppets on stage. When the kerfuffle dies down, Don Quixote takes centre stage and recounts some of his most heroic adventures, and serenades his Dulcinea, the woman of his dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Doberman-Yppan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45879719755855,"sku":"DO1644","price":15.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0900\/1828\/files\/c2ea70c135c8802527958d6741949260.jpg?v=1781734820","url":"https:\/\/www.ficksmusic.com\/ja\/products\/goss-don-quixote-yppan","provider":"Ficks Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}