List of compositions by Silvestre Revueltas

Silvestre Revueltas in 1930

This is a list of compositions by Silvestre Revueltas (1899–1940).

Stage works

Ballets

• La coronela, 1940 (unfinished; a completion by Blas Galindo and Candelario Huízar lost)
• El renacuajo paseador, 1936

Orchestral works

• Pieza para orquesta, 1929
• Esquinas, 1931 (rev. 1933)
• Cuauhnáhuac, for string orchestra, 1931; revised for full orchestra, 1931; revised again for full orchestra 1932
• Ventanas, 1931
• Alcancías, 1932
• Colorines, for chamber orchestra, 1932
• El renacuajo paseador, 1933
• Janitzio, 1933 (rev. 1936)
• Toccata (sin fuga), for violin and chamber orchestra 1933
• Troka, 1933
• Caminos, 1934
• La coronela (orch. by José Pablo Moncayo and arr. by José Limantour)
• Danza geométrica (orchestral version of Planos), 1934
• Itinerarios, 1938
• Música para charlar, 1938 (from the film score of Ferrocarriles de Baja California)
• Sensemayá, 1938

Chamber works

• El afilador, 1924
• Batik, 1926
• Four Little Pieces for two violins and cello, 1929
• String Quartet No. 1, 1930
• String Quartet No. 2, 1931
• String Quartet No. 3, 1931
• String Quartet No. 4, Música de feria, 1932
• Tres pequeñas piezas serias, for quintet of mixed winds, 1932–33
• Tres piezas, for violin and piano, 1932
• Ocho x radio, 1933
• Planos, 1934
• Homenaje a Federico García Lorca, 1936
• Éste era un rey 1940
• First Little Serious Piece, five wind instruments (piccolo, oboe, clarinet, baritone saxophone, trumpet), 1940
• Second Little Serious Piece, for five wind instruments (piccolo, oboe, clarinet, baritone saxophone, trumpet), 1940

Film scores

• Redes, 1935
• ¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa!, 1936
• Ferrocarriles de Baja California, 1938
  • Selections reworked as Música para charlar
• El indio, 1938
• Bajo el signo de la muerte, 1939
• Los de abajo, 1939
• La noche de los mayas (Night of the Mayas), 1939
• ¡Que viene mi marido!, 1940

Songs

• "Duo para pato y canario", voice and chamber orchestra, 1931
• "Ranas" (Frogs) and "El tecolote" (The Owl), voice and piano, 1931
• "Caminando", 1937
• "Canto a una muchacha negra" (words by Langston Hughes), voice and piano 1938
• "Cinco canciones para niños y dos canciones profanas", 1938–39

Piano

• Allegro
• Canción (a passage used also in Cuauhnáhuac)

References

Sources

• Kolb Neuhaus, Roberto (2006). "El vanguardismo de Silvestre Revueltas: una perspectiva semiótica". DHA thesis. Coyoacán, DF: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
• Stevenson, Robert (2001). "Revueltas, Silvestre". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.

Further reading

• Clark, Walter Aaron (1999). "The Music of Latin America". In Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Approach, third edition, edited by Julio López-Arias and Gladys Varona-Lacey, 233–253. New York: P. Lang. ISBN 9780820434797
• Kolb Neuhaus, Roberto (1998). Silvestre Revueltas. Catálogo de sus obras. Coyoacán, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Escuela Nacional de Música. ISBN 968-36-6909-3.

External links

• Free scores by Silvestre Revueltas at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)