PLANOS · Para diez unidades Version for small orchestra |
Work information Autograph |
Instrumental genre | Music for small orchestra |
Other versions: | Version for symphony orchestra |
Place of composition | Mexico City |
Date of composition | April 1, 1934 |
Dedication | For Ricardo Ortega |
Duration | 8’ |
Instrumentation | Cl[B♭], bcl, bn / tpt / pf / 2vn, vc, db |
Documentary archive | The autograph has been preserved. |
Notes by compiler | The work’s instrumentation is for nine instruments. The number mentioned in the subtitle is likely the composer’s error. |
Texts by Revueltas about the works | Planes: “functional” architecture not exclusive of feeling. The melodic fragments spring from the same impulse, the same emotion, as those of others by the same author. They sing in an obstinate rhythm, always marching ahead, with a sound that is strange perhaps because it is unaccustomed, which is like its context. Rhythm and sound reminiscent of other rhythms and sounds, probably the same way that one construction material resembles another, or is the same one but used for different constructions, in meaning, in form, in expression. (Text included in the program for the corresponding concert.) |
Publications | Southern Music Publishing Co., published as Planes for small orchestra. |