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
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