Aragonaise, from Carmen (violin viola duo)

Title: Aragonaise, from the opera Carmen

Composer: Georges Bizet, arr. David Gable

Instrumentation: Violin and Viola

Printout: 6 pages

Note: The Aragonaise serves as the entr’acte to Act IV in Bizet’s operatic masterpiece, Carmen. It is a musical portrayal of the streets of Seville just prior to a bullfight. It’s driving 3/8 rhythms are characteristically Spanish, but the treatment is thoroughly Bizet.

This selection is also available in the Bargain Bundle Carmen, Selected Highlights for violin and viola, Set 1.