SENSEMAYÁ · Canto para matar a una culebra Version for small orchestra |
Work information Autograph Drafts Sketches Instrumental parts (12) |
Instrumental genre | Music for small orchestra |
Other versions: | Version for symphony orchestra |
Place of composition | Mexico City |
Date of composition | May 10–15, 1937 |
Dedication | For Juan Marinello
For Nicolás Guillén
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Premiere | There is no record of a performance of the work, though there are instrumental parts done by the composer. This work may have been included in the programming of the Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, 1937, as part of the “Poems of Nicolás Guillén” that appear in a rough draft of this programming. |
Duration | 5’ |
Instrumentation | Picc, cl[E♭], cl[B♭], bcl, bn / 2tpt, tbn / perc /pf /2vn, cb |
Documentary archive | One photostat and several photostat copies of the autograph have been preserved. There is a surviving original of a draft score dated May 11, 1937, signed but with no dedication. There is a sketch of an unidentified song on one of its pages. |
Notes by compiler | Work based on a poem of the same name by Nicolás Guillén, from the collection West Indies Ltd. (1934). |
Publications | UNAM Critical Edition |