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.