Ritual Fire Dance
Piece of music by Manuel de Falla / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]