Tarrega - Recuerdos de la Alhambra

Recuerdos de la Alhambra (English: Memories of the Alhambra) is a classical guitar piece composed in 1896 by Spanish composer and guitarist Francisco Tárrega. He wrote it in Granada.

The piece showcases the challenging guitar technique known as 'tremolo,' where a single melody note is plucked repeatedly by the ring, middle and index fingers in such rapid succession that the result is an illusion of one long sustained tone. The thumb plays a counter-melody on the bass between melodic attacks. Many who hear this piece initially in a non-live setting can mistake it for a duet rather than a challenging solo effort.

The A-section of the piece is written in a minor key, and the B-section is written in the major key of the same root (more specifically, A-minor and A-major). This gives the song a melancholy feel in the beginning, and then it resolves to an uplifting feel. This device is used in other Spanish guitar songs as well, such as the anonymous "Spanish Romance" (also known simply as "Romance" or "Spanish Folk Song").[

Recuerdos de la Alhambra has been used as title or incidental music several times, including the soundtrack for both The Killing Fields (under the title "Étude") and in the film Sideways. It was used as the title music for the British television series Out of Town.

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