What I want to talk about is the second movement from the Estampes called 'Evening in

Granada.' Just like the name of this work, 'Estampes' (Prints), I think Debussy had a visual
framework in mind when composing this piece. In my view, when I listen to this piece,
the picture comes to my mind is a traveler arriving in Granada in a sultry summer night.
His ears are filled with various sounds such as guitars strumming, the Habanera dances,
and the lively atmosphere of the night market. As time passes, he has to leave this place.
The passionate dance fades away in his ears gradually, leaving him with a feeling of
reluctance and loneliness.

This is a piece structured around the Habanera rhythm. At the very beginning, the c
sharp in right hand with the Habanera rhythm’s cycle in the left hand reveal the first
idea. To me it seemed like a sounding coming from far away, as the traveler in the
painting was still far away from the grenade but have heard some faint sound.
(C sharp Phrygian scale. Augmented minor 2 nd.)

The dreamlike idea is suddenly broken by another voice, which tell us that a new idea
has appeared. There’s like a vaguely percussive passage perhaps suggesting guitar
strumming. The picture in my mind is that the traveler suddenly hears the sound of a
string of guitar strumming. Basically, we hear what the protagonist in the picture hears.

Then ,there’s another scene switch and a new idea comes up. This phrase which perhaps
more French sounding more typically in Debussy-like in sound quality. The whole tone
scale is used here. And after this finally the Habanera builds up to a magnificent full
statement with 4 measures suave habanera.

A completely new idea come out. it's a fast kind of quicksilver idea it's maybe suggesting the
sounds of castanets. And this sound interrupting the Habanera idea twice… Up to here, we can
find what is interesting is the frame. Something undeniably cinematic about the way he
cuts from scene to scene from idea to idea and juxtaposes highly varied images starkly
one next to the other, which is don't follow any kind of each other’s strict order.