The wind music of Silvestre Revueltas: An annotated catalog and discussion of selected works

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Silvestre Revueltas (1899–1940) has emerged as a unique voice in Latin American music of the twentieth century. Affected by the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920, Revueltas might be described as a musical nationalist and at the same time could be considered a modernist who was able to stylize folk elements in his music without quoting directly from them. ^ An unusual aspect of Revueltas' output is that a number of his most important works were written for ensembles either dominated by, or composed exclusively of, wind instruments. Remarkably, Revueltas never wrote a single symphony, concerto, opera, or sonata. Drawn to the modernist movement, and reluctant to write within traditional forms, he found that the sonorities of wind instruments adeptly reflected the poetic nuances or programmatic representations that he strived for in his music, which seems to embrace the vital, rough edges of folk idioms. Revueltas' wind music has not been examined in detail in earlier literature on the compo

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