Editing Palau de la Música Catalana (section)

===Façade===
[[Image:Modernisme.jpg|right|thumb|upright|Miquel Blay's sculptural group (''The Catalan song'') on the corner.]]
The rich decoration of the façade of the palace, which incorporates elements from many sources, including traditional Spanish and Arabic architecture, is successfully married with the building's structure.  The exposed red brick and iron, the mosaics, the stained glass, and the glazed tiles were chosen and situated to give a feeling of openness and transparency.  Even [[Miguel Blay]]'s massive sculptural group symbolizing Catalan music on the corner of the building does not impede the view into or out from the interior (see photograph).  As Carandell and co-authors (2006, 20) have pointed out, in the palace "the house as a defense and protected inner space has ceased to exist".

Two colonnades enjoy a commanding position on the second-level balcony of the main façade. Each column is covered uniquely with multicolored glazed tile pieces in mostly floral designs and is capped with a candelabrum that at night blazes with light (see photograph).  Above the columns are large busts of [[Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina]], [[Johann Sebastian Bach]], and [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] on the main façade and [[Richard Wagner]] on the side.  The top of the main façade is graced by a large allegoric mosaic by Lluís Bru that represents the members of the Orfeó Català, but it is impossible to see it clearly from the narrow street below.

[[Image:DiM PalaudelaMusica 6345.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Former ticket box, in an entrance pillar.]]
[[File:Mosaic at palau de la música catalana.jpg|right|thumb|Mosaic on balcony façade]]
[[Image:Palau de musica 2.JPG|right|thumb|A detail from the entrance]]