![]() ![]() Revueltas was intricately connected to his wider environment, which is vital in understanding his music and his motivations to compose it. The Biography -Chapter One- provides insight into Revueltas’s life from personal, professional, and political perspectives, as well as the historical context of México’s post-Revolutionary era in which Revueltas lived. To provide a comprehensive study of this piece, the monograph is divided into three chapters: Biography, Analysis, and Conductor’s Considerations. It combines a highly personal and modernist approach with the juxtaposition of elements originating from folk, popular, and indian music. ![]() Homenaje is widely regarded as one of Revueltas’s most compelling works. Homenaje is orchestrated for twelve instruments in three contrasting movements: Baile (dance), Duelo (mourning), and Son (son is the name of a genre of traditional Mexican music). Revueltas wrote Homenaje a García Lorca, a chamber orchestral piece, in response to the murder of the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War. ![]() The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a conductor’s analysis of the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas’s Homenaje a García Lorca from research of his work and life. ![]()
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