Word: molinero
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While one of Boccherini's guitar quintets features castanets, Turina calls for percussive sounds created by tapping the face of the instrument. Fisk later extended the guitar's percussive role in his transcription of de Falla's Danza del Molinero from "El Sombrero de Tres Picos"; by adding a strummed tone to his tapping, Fisk achieved a startlingly bell-like effect. He also created ringing harmonics by manipulating the resonant lengths of the strings...
...dusk the first patrols of the Seventh Army appeared. General Molinero tried to surrender to them. They declined the honor. At 7:24 a car appeared with a U.S. corps commander. Diffidently, without pride, General Molinero approached the car and spoke in Italian. An interpreter translated: General Molinero and his troops did not want to fight. But there was a difficulty. Within the city, in the royal palace, was one General Mario Arisio, an unpredictable fellow who also commanded troops. For this Arisio, General Molinero could not speak...
...last sunset of Fascism was falling on Palermo, the capital and largest city of Sicily, and still the Americans had not arrived. Major General Giuseppe Molinero and his suite waited in their car, peering down a road...
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