Misreading Revueltas: Polysemy and the Second String Quartet

Abstract Silvestre Revueltas’s Second String Quartet premiered in Mexico City 1931, and was played a year later at Aaron Copland’s Yaddo Festival in Saratoga Springs. When Copland heard the work, he described it as “very amusing... a little Mexican drama, and I could easily imagine it being danced....

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Main Author: Chelsea Burns
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SATMUS - Sociedad de Análisis y Teoría Musical 2023-04-01
Series:Súmula
Online Access:https://revistasumula.org/index.php/revista/article/view/16