Aragonaise, from Carmen (string quartet)

Title: Aragonaise, from the opera Carmen

Composer: Georges Bizet, arr. David Gable

Instrumentation: Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola and Cello

Printout: 12 pages

Note: The Aragonaise, with its exotic rhythms and sinuous melodies, is a favorite selection from one of the opera world’s most popular romantic operas, Carmen. It has broad appeal to listeners and players alike. In the opera the Aragonaise serves as the entr’acte to Act IV, and it is heard immediately following the prelude in the first Carmen Suite.  

Other string quartet arrangements of selections from Carmen are available:

Choeur des Gamins (Chorus of the Street Children)

Habañera

Intermezzo

Les Dragons d’Alcala

Marche des Contrebandiers (March of the Smugglers)

Prelude to Act I (Entrance of the Toreadors)

Séguedille

The Toreador’s Song

Tra-la-la Coupe-moi, brûle-moi