This is the sheet music for Tonada de la niña perdida by Joaquín Nin. This sweet tone poem comes from Nin’s “Veinte cantos populares españoles” and has been transposed down a minor third from G Major to E Major, making it suitable for mezzo sopranos with a one octave range of E4-E5. It tells the story of a girl who was going to make a pilgrimage with her mother, but in her excitement to show that she is more devoted, she goes alone and takes a different path. Finding herself lost on a mountainside, she decides to take a nap under an oak tree. This set of pieces dates from 1923-24, with this particular melody likely coming from the region of Spain that is now known as Castilla y León.