Ritual Fire Dance

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.

The work can be associated to 1910 Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee"[3] due to its fast, repetitive trills and ornaments.

[4][5] In de Falla's ballet El amor brujo, a young Andalusian gypsy girl called Candela is haunted by the ghost of her dead husband.

To get rid of him, all the gypsies make a large circle around their campfire at midnight.

[6] The "Ritual Fire Dance", and the ballet as a whole, has been transcribed many times since its original composition in 1915, often by Manuel de Falla himself.

The dynamics of this section change frequently from pianissimo (pp) to mezzo forte (mf).

However, as the repeat is not complete, the third movement is then cut off half way through by an ascending scale of triplets for four bars.