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Música de feria

March 02, 2024

Música de feria (Fair Music) is a composition for string quartet by the Mexican composer and violinist Silvestre Revueltas, written in 1932. Though not so titled by the composer, it is sometimes referred to as his String Quartet No. 4. A performance lasts a little more than nine minutes.

Silvestre Revueltas in 1930

History edit

Música de feria was completed on 25 March 1932 and first performed on 7 November 1933 by the Cuarteto Clásico (violinists Ezequiel Sierra and David Saloma, violist David Elizarrarás, and cellist Teófilo Ariza) at the Teatro Hidalgo in Mexico City.[1] Revueltas had previously composed three numbered quartets in rapid succession in 1930–31, but this work was only first designated his String Quartet No. 4 in 1984, by the Cuarteto Latinoamericano and Juan Arturo Brennan. It is regarded as one of Revueltas's most important works.[2] Of his four quartets, Música de feria is without question the one that has most often been performed and recorded.[3]

Analysis edit

 
Fair at the Plaza de la Constitución, Mexico City

Música de feria is written in a single movement which nevertheless incorporates the structure and development of a traditional quartet. A distinctive feature is the simultaneous presentation of independent melodic lines in each part but within a single rhythmic pattern.[2]

There is considerable disagreement about the musical structure.

According to one interpretation, the quartet is seen as clearly falling into four main sections, corresponding in miniature to the structure of a traditional four-movement string quartet: Allegro (first movement), Lento (slow movement), Allegro giocoso (scherzo), and Allegro tempo I (finale).[4]

Alternatively, the quartet is regarded as falling into just three large sections, each of which consists of a succession of three contrasting subsections. The opening section (Allegro–Vivo allegro) returns in slightly modified form at the end, thereby forming an overall ABC–DEF–ABC pattern. The central section is marked at its onset (D) by a slow tempo (Lento) employing ostinato patterns, but this gives way to increasingly faster material in the second and third subsections (E and F, Allegro tempo I and Giocoso, respectively). The recurrence of the opening section is almost literal in its A and B subsections, with the C section in an accelerated tempo, Presto y frenético.[5]

Discography edit

In chronological order of recording.

  • Cuartetos de cuerda de Silvestre Revueltas. String Quartets 1–4. Cuarteto de Cuerdas Latinoamericano (Jorge Risi and Aron Bitrán, violins; Javier Montiel, viola; Alvaro Bitrán, cello). Recorded in the Sala Carlos Chávez, Centro Cultural Universitario, June 1984. LP recording, 1 disc: analog, 33⅓ rpm, stereo, 12 in. Voz Viva de México: Serie Música Nueva. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1984. Reissued as Silvestre Revueltas: Los cuartetos de cuerdas, second edition. LP recording, 1 disc: analog, 33⅓ rpm, stereo, 12 in. Voz Viva 337–338. Serie Música nueva MN-22. [Mexico City]: Voz Viva, 1987.
  • Cuarteto de Cuerdas Latinoamericano. Silvestre Revueltas: Música de feria; Rodolfo Halffter: Ocho tientos para cuarteto de cuerdas; Julián Carrillo: Dos piezas para cuarteto de cuerdas; Arturo Márquez: Ron-dó. Cuarteto Latinoamericano. LP recording, 1 disc: analog, 33⅓ rpm, 12 in. Colección hispano mexicana de música contemporánea 4. Mexico, D.F.: CIIM, 1986.
  • Silvestre Revueltas, Alberto Ginastera, Heitor Villa-Lobos: String Quartets/Cuartetos para cuerdas. Revueltas: Música de feria and Quartet no. 2 (Magueyes); Ginastera, Quartet no. 1, Op. 20; Villa-Lobos: Quartet no. 17. Cuarteto Latinoamericano. Recorded October 1988 in Carnegie Free Library Concert Hall, Carnegie, Pennsylvania. CD recording, 1 disc: digital, stereo, 4¾ in. Élan CD 2218. Adelphi, Maryland: Élan, 1989. Revueltas and Villa-Lobos reissued as part of Latin American String Quartets. Heitor Villa-Lobos: String Quartets Nos. 5 and 17; Silvestre Revueltas: Música de feria; Julián Orbón: String Quartet; Mario Lavista: Reflejos de la noche. Cuarteto Latinoamericano (Saúl Bitrán and Arón Bitrán, violins; Javier Montiel, viola; Alvaro Bitrán, violoncello). Orbón and Villa-Lobos Quartet No. 5 recorded March 1990 in Carnegie Free Library Concert Hall, Carnegie, Pennsylvania. CD recording, 1 disc: digital, 4¾ in. Riverdale, Maryland: Élan Recordings, 2001.
  • Música de feria: String Quartets from Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Spain. Revueltas: Música de feria; Villa-Lobos: Quartet No. 6; Turina: La oración del torero; Orrego-Salas: String Quartet No. 1. The Helios String Quartet (Krzysztof Zimowski and Jonathan Armerding, violins; Willy Sucre, viola; Adam González, cello). Recorded July 1992, Simms Auditorium, Albuquerque Academy, New Mexico. CD recording, 1 disc: digital, 4¾ in., stereo. UBIK Sound UB 20. Albuquerque: UBIK Sound, 1993.
  • Silvestre Revueltas. Música de feria: The String Quartets/los cuartetos de cuerda. Quartet No. 1; Quartet No. 2, Magueyes; Quartet No. 3; Quartet No. 4: Música de feria. Cuarteto Latinoamericano. Recorded April 9–10, 1993, at the Carnegie Free Library, Carnegie, Pennsylvania. New Albion NA062CD. Classical Music Library. San Francisco: New Albion Records, 1993. Reissued as Revueltas String Quartets Nos. 1–4. Hong Kong: Naxos Digital Services Ltd., [2009], streaming audio (online resource).
  • Tear. Astor Piazzolla, Libertango (arr. Jeremy Cohen); Ruth Crawford Seeger, "Andante" from the String Quartet; Ronald Bruce Smith, "Corrente" from Quartet No. 2, "Nostalgia"; Gabriela Ortiz, String Quartet No. 1; John Harbison, "Fantasia" from String Quartet No. 2; Silvestre Revueltas, Musica de feria; Keeril Makan, Tear; Adriana Isabel Figueroa Mañas, "Audacious Tango" from Tangoimpressions; Lou Harrison, "Variations on a Song of Palestine" from String Quartet Set; Earle Brown, String Quartet; Alberto Ginastera, "Libero e rapsódico" from String Quartet No. 2; Del Sol String Quartet, Crack (improvisation). Del Sol String Quartet (Kate Stenberg and Aenea Mizushima Keyes, violins; Charlton Lee, viola; Randy Fromme, cello). Recorded May 2002 at APG Studios, San Francisco. CD recording, 1 disc: digital, stereo, 4¾ in. Del Sol String Quartet 5637270277. [San Francisco?]: Del Sol String Quartet, 2003.
  • Martínez Bourguet String Quartet Plays Silvestre Revueltas. String Quartets 1–3 and Música de feria. Martínez Bourguet String Quartet (Pablo Arturo Martínez Bourguet and Ekaterine Martínez Bourguet, violins; Alessia Martínez Bourguet, viola; César Martínez Bourguet, cello). Recorded in the summer of 2006 in the Sala Carlos Chávez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. CD recording, 1 disc: digital, 4¾ in., stereo. MB Producciones [s.n.]. [Mexico]: MB Producciones, 2007.
  • Candybox: String Quartet "Sweets" from Bartók to Jenkins. Béla Bartók, Valse (Ma mie qui danse), arr. Sándor Devich; Vladimír Godár, Ground, from Concerto grosso per archi e cembalo, arr. Gene Carl; Karl Jenkins, String Quartet no. 2; Chiel Meijering, Caixa de dolços; Silvestre Revueltas, Música de feria; Josef Suk, Meditation Svatý Václave, Op. 35; Joaquín Turina, Serenata, Op. 87. Matangi Quartet (Maria-Paula Majoor and Daniel Torrico Menacho, violins; Karsten Kleijer, viola; Arno van der Vuurst, cello; with Zita Mikijanska, harpsichord, in the Godár work). Recorded 29 June – 3 July 2009 at FWL Studios, Leipzig. CD recording, 1 disc: digital, stereo. CD recording, 1 disc: digital, stereo, 4¾ in. Challenge Classics 72353. [Hilversum, The Netherlands]: Challenge Classics, 2010.

References edit

  1. ^ Keller 2011, 381.
  2. ^ a b Contreras Soto 2000.
  3. ^ Bitrán 2001, 71.
  4. ^ Bitrán 2001, 77.
  5. ^ Leclair 1995, 121–125.

Sources

  • Bitrán, Saúl. 2001. "Música de feria: Una visión personal". Pauta 20, nos. 77–78 (January–June): 71–80.
  • Contreras Soto, Eduardo. 2000. "Música de feria". In Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures, 3 vols., edited by Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez, and Ana M. Lopez, 2:1014. Encyclopedias of Contemporary Culture. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-13188-9 (set).
  • Keller, James M. 2011. Chamber Music: A Listener's Guide. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-538253-2.
  • Leclair, Charmaine Françoise. 1995. "The Solo and Chamber Music of Silvestre Revueltas". PhD diss. Eugene: University of Oregon.

Further reading edit

  • Baldassarre, Antonio. 2015. "Negotiating History, Nation and the Canon: The String Quartets of Silvestre Revueltas". In Communication Music: Festschrift für Ernst Lichtenhahn [de] zum 80. Geburtstag/Festschrift for Ernst Lichtenhahn's 80th Birthday, edited by Antonio Baldassarre and Marc-Antoine Camp, 453–478 . Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-0351-0806-4; ISBN 978-3-0343-1625-5.
  • Bitrán, Arón. 1996. "Los cuartetos de Silvestre Revueltas". 'Pauta 16, nos. 57–58 (January–June): 30–35.
  • Estrada, Julio. 2012. Canto roto: Silvestre Revueltas. México, D.F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica; Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. ISBN 978-60 7-16-0951-9.
  • Madrid, Alejandro L. 2001. "¿Influencias o elementos de retórica? Aspectos de centricidad en la obra de Silvestre Revueltas". Heterofonía: Revista de investigación musical, no. 122 (January–June): 19–38.
  • Jiménez Ramírez, Talía. 2002. "Los cuartetos de cuerdas de 1932: Estudio comparativo del Cuarteto número 2 de Carlos Chávez y de Música de feria de Silvestre Revueltas". In Diálogo de resplandores: Carlos Chávez y Silvestre Revueltas, edited by Ricardo Miranda Pérez and Yael Bitrán, 47–67. Ríos y raíces: Teoría y práctica del arte. México, D.F.: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA) (Dirección General de Publicaciones). ISBN 978-970-18-8409-6.

External links edit

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Musica de feria Fair Music is a composition for string quartet by the Mexican composer and violinist Silvestre Revueltas written in 1932 Though not so titled by the composer it is sometimes referred to as his String Quartet No 4 A performance lasts a little more than nine minutes Silvestre Revueltas in 1930 Contents 1 History 2 Analysis 3 Discography 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External linksHistory editMusica de feria was completed on 25 March 1932 and first performed on 7 November 1933 by the Cuarteto Clasico violinists Ezequiel Sierra and David Saloma violist David Elizarraras and cellist Teofilo Ariza at the Teatro Hidalgo in Mexico City 1 Revueltas had previously composed three numbered quartets in rapid succession in 1930 31 but this work was only first designated his String Quartet No 4 in 1984 by the Cuarteto Latinoamericano and Juan Arturo Brennan It is regarded as one of Revueltas s most important works 2 Of his four quartets Musica de feria is without question the one that has most often been performed and recorded 3 Analysis edit nbsp Fair at the Plaza de la Constitucion Mexico CityMusica de feria is written in a single movement which nevertheless incorporates the structure and development of a traditional quartet A distinctive feature is the simultaneous presentation of independent melodic lines in each part but within a single rhythmic pattern 2 There is considerable disagreement about the musical structure According to one interpretation the quartet is seen as clearly falling into four main sections corresponding in miniature to the structure of a traditional four movement string quartet Allegro first movement Lento slow movement Allegro giocoso scherzo and Allegro tempo I finale 4 Alternatively the quartet is regarded as falling into just three large sections each of which consists of a succession of three contrasting subsections The opening section Allegro Vivo allegro returns in slightly modified form at the end thereby forming an overall ABC DEF ABC pattern The central section is marked at its onset D by a slow tempo Lento employing ostinato patterns but this gives way to increasingly faster material in the second and third subsections E and F Allegro tempo I and Giocoso respectively The recurrence of the opening section is almost literal in its A and B subsections with the C section in an accelerated tempo Presto y frenetico 5 Discography editIn chronological order of recording Cuartetos de cuerda de Silvestre Revueltas String Quartets 1 4 Cuarteto de Cuerdas Latinoamericano Jorge Risi and Aron Bitran violins Javier Montiel viola Alvaro Bitran cello Recorded in the Sala Carlos Chavez Centro Cultural Universitario June 1984 LP recording 1 disc analog 33 rpm stereo 12 in Voz Viva de Mexico Serie Musica Nueva Mexico Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico 1984 Reissued as Silvestre Revueltas Los cuartetos de cuerdas second edition LP recording 1 disc analog 33 rpm stereo 12 in Voz Viva 337 338 Serie Musica nueva MN 22 Mexico City Voz Viva 1987 Cuarteto de Cuerdas Latinoamericano Silvestre Revueltas Musica de feria Rodolfo Halffter Ocho tientos para cuarteto de cuerdas Julian Carrillo Dos piezas para cuarteto de cuerdas Arturo Marquez Ron do Cuarteto Latinoamericano LP recording 1 disc analog 33 rpm 12 in Coleccion hispano mexicana de musica contemporanea 4 Mexico D F CIIM 1986 Silvestre Revueltas Alberto Ginastera Heitor Villa Lobos String Quartets Cuartetos para cuerdas Revueltas Musica de feria and Quartet no 2 Magueyes Ginastera Quartet no 1 Op 20 Villa Lobos Quartet no 17 Cuarteto Latinoamericano Recorded October 1988 in Carnegie Free Library Concert Hall Carnegie Pennsylvania CD recording 1 disc digital stereo 4 in Elan CD 2218 Adelphi Maryland Elan 1989 Revueltas and Villa Lobos reissued as part of Latin American String Quartets Heitor Villa Lobos String Quartets Nos 5 and 17 Silvestre Revueltas Musica de feria Julian Orbon String Quartet Mario Lavista Reflejos de la noche Cuarteto Latinoamericano Saul Bitran and Aron Bitran violins Javier Montiel viola Alvaro Bitran violoncello Orbon and Villa Lobos Quartet No 5 recorded March 1990 in Carnegie Free Library Concert Hall Carnegie Pennsylvania CD recording 1 disc digital 4 in Riverdale Maryland Elan Recordings 2001 Musica de feria String Quartets from Mexico Brazil Chile and Spain Revueltas Musica de feria Villa Lobos Quartet No 6 Turina La oracion del torero Orrego Salas String Quartet No 1 The Helios String Quartet Krzysztof Zimowski and Jonathan Armerding violins Willy Sucre viola Adam Gonzalez cello Recorded July 1992 Simms Auditorium Albuquerque Academy New Mexico CD recording 1 disc digital 4 in stereo UBIK Sound UB 20 Albuquerque UBIK Sound 1993 Silvestre Revueltas Musica de feria The String Quartets los cuartetos de cuerda Quartet No 1 Quartet No 2 Magueyes Quartet No 3 Quartet No 4 Musica de feria Cuarteto Latinoamericano Recorded April 9 10 1993 at the Carnegie Free Library Carnegie Pennsylvania New Albion NA062CD Classical Music Library San Francisco New Albion Records 1993 Reissued as Revueltas String Quartets Nos 1 4 Hong Kong Naxos Digital Services Ltd 2009 streaming audio online resource Tear Astor Piazzolla Libertango arr Jeremy Cohen Ruth Crawford Seeger Andante from the String Quartet Ronald Bruce Smith Corrente from Quartet No 2 Nostalgia Gabriela Ortiz String Quartet No 1 John Harbison Fantasia from String Quartet No 2 Silvestre Revueltas Musica de feria Keeril Makan Tear Adriana Isabel Figueroa Manas Audacious Tango from Tangoimpressions Lou Harrison Variations on a Song of Palestine from String Quartet Set Earle Brown String Quartet Alberto Ginastera Libero e rapsodico from String Quartet No 2 Del Sol String Quartet Crack improvisation Del Sol String Quartet Kate Stenberg and Aenea Mizushima Keyes violins Charlton Lee viola Randy Fromme cello Recorded May 2002 at APG Studios San Francisco CD recording 1 disc digital stereo 4 in Del Sol String Quartet 5637270277 San Francisco Del Sol String Quartet 2003 Martinez Bourguet String Quartet Plays Silvestre Revueltas String Quartets 1 3 and Musica de feria Martinez Bourguet String Quartet Pablo Arturo Martinez Bourguet and Ekaterine Martinez Bourguet violins Alessia Martinez Bourguet viola Cesar Martinez Bourguet cello Recorded in the summer of 2006 in the Sala Carlos Chavez Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico CD recording 1 disc digital 4 in stereo MB Producciones s n Mexico MB Producciones 2007 Candybox String Quartet Sweets from Bartok to Jenkins Bela Bartok Valse Ma mie qui danse arr Sandor Devich Vladimir Godar Ground from Concerto grosso per archi e cembalo arr Gene Carl Karl Jenkins String Quartet no 2 Chiel Meijering Caixa de dolcos Silvestre Revueltas Musica de feria Josef Suk Meditation Svaty Vaclave Op 35 Joaquin Turina Serenata Op 87 Matangi Quartet Maria Paula Majoor and Daniel Torrico Menacho violins Karsten Kleijer viola Arno van der Vuurst cello with Zita Mikijanska harpsichord in the Godar work Recorded 29 June 3 July 2009 at FWL Studios Leipzig CD recording 1 disc digital stereo CD recording 1 disc digital stereo 4 in Challenge Classics 72353 Hilversum The Netherlands Challenge Classics 2010 References edit Keller 2011 381 a b Contreras Soto 2000 Bitran 2001 71 Bitran 2001 77 Leclair 1995 121 125 Sources Bitran Saul 2001 Musica de feria Una vision personal Pauta 20 nos 77 78 January June 71 80 Contreras Soto Eduardo 2000 Musica de feria In Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures 3 vols edited by Daniel Balderston Mike Gonzalez and Ana M Lopez 2 1014 Encyclopedias of Contemporary Culture London and New York Routledge ISBN 978 0 415 13188 9 set Keller James M 2011 Chamber Music A Listener s Guide Oxford and New York Oxford University Press ISBN 978 0 19 538253 2 Leclair Charmaine Francoise 1995 The Solo and Chamber Music of Silvestre Revueltas PhD diss Eugene University of Oregon Further reading editBaldassarre Antonio 2015 Negotiating History Nation and the Canon The String Quartets of Silvestre Revueltas In Communication Music Festschrift fur Ernst Lichtenhahn de zum 80 Geburtstag Festschrift for Ernst Lichtenhahn s 80th Birthday edited by Antonio Baldassarre and Marc Antoine Camp 453 478 Bern Switzerland Peter Lang ISBN 978 3 0351 0806 4 ISBN 978 3 0343 1625 5 Bitran Aron 1996 Los cuartetos de Silvestre Revueltas Pauta16 nos 57 58 January June 30 35 Estrada Julio 2012 Canto roto Silvestre Revueltas Mexico D F Fondo de Cultura Economica Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico ISBN 978 60 7 16 0951 9 Madrid Alejandro L 2001 Influencias o elementos de retorica Aspectos de centricidad en la obra de Silvestre Revueltas Heterofonia Revista de investigacion musical no 122 January June 19 38 Jimenez Ramirez Talia 2002 Los cuartetos de cuerdas de 1932 Estudio comparativo del Cuarteto numero 2 de Carlos Chavez y de Musica de feria de Silvestre Revueltas In Dialogo de resplandores Carlos Chavez y Silvestre Revueltas edited by Ricardo Miranda Perez and Yael Bitran 47 67 Rios y raices Teoria y practica del arte Mexico D F Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes CONACULTA Direccion General de Publicaciones ISBN 978 970 18 8409 6 External links editMusica de feria R 28 Revueltas Scores at the International Music Score Library Project Paging score on YouTube Cuarteto Latinoamericano Portal nbsp Classical music Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Musica de feria amp oldid 1086360887, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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