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- Genre: Early 20th Century
- Form: Tone Poem
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Maseuayotl Op.31
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re-upload from August 2010...
Maseuayotl
Op.31
Tone Poem for Orchestra.
This year Mexico celebrates the Bicentenary, (two hundred years of the Independence and A hundred years of the Revolution) much has been said about it, that we must celebrate our freedom and we must do something good for our country etc... I don't know if all this Patriotic rumble influenced me or not, but I decided that I should compose a work with a Mexican feeling because I have none in my portfolio.
Due to I don't like Mariachis and most of post-columbine local music I chose something older:
The Concheros in the "Acueducto" - Queretaro, Mex.
This work is based on the rhythms of "Concheros", these are dancers who keep performing the original rituals of the Chichimecas Indians. I don't belong to this people but I have seen them many times. You can see them on this YouTube Video
The "Conchero" rhythms are basically a variety of 12/8 beats, performed by the lead drum called "Huehuetl" and the rest of dancers follow the beat with other percussion called "Coyoleras" (which are a sort of sleigh bells made of vegetable seeds that they carry on their feet) and "Sonajas" some shakers (sometimes made of metal).To give the true Conchero feeling to this work I do call for these 3 percussion (which are not difficult to find here in Mexico) the rest of content would have to be created by me because the Conchero music doesn't include very much elements but rhythm.I found this project difficult to achieve, because my personal style is usually far from these matters and perhaps not very much "compatible" with the ethnic element I planned to use. I think is normal if you feel some kind of conflict between different segments of the work, first because to this ethnic music has been rarely taken to a symphonic level, and because I was not able to mix both styles as good as I thought. Maybe you will say that this is nothing but one of my common works with the ethnic percussion added, could be truth, but the "Concheros" music doesn't have very much to offer either so, "fill" the rest with my personal music was the only option.
Other aspects I wanted to follow was to write a piece without a clear war segment, (because I very much tent to fall into that) for this I decided not to use the snare drum at all, kinda worked but you tell me... (Remove the xylophone too.)
About the Genre I handle here I don't think any of you know this genre well enough to write an extended critic (unless you tell me you know Carlos Chavez Sinfonia No.2 "India")... but I don't mean I don't want you comments, I do want the other kind of critic, the one from a person is not used to this and listen to it like any other audience.
About the Recording:
I created the samples of the Conchero percussion by editing samples of tenor drum (for the huehuetl) common sleigh-bells and shakers for the others.
Harp, Timpani, Bass drum, Cymbals and Tam-tam by GPO v.1
Ethnic percussion loaded into FL Studio working a VST
Rest of orchestra by EDIROL Orchestral.
Sequenced and Recorded on Sibelius 6.1
Note: These Indians have nothing to do with the ones you see in the western movies
I need to clean up this score, advices will be helpful.
Maseuayotl
Op.31
Tone Poem for Orchestra.
This year Mexico celebrates the Bicentenary, (two hundred years of the Independence and A hundred years of the Revolution) much has been said about it, that we must celebrate our freedom and we must do something good for our country etc... I don't know if all this Patriotic rumble influenced me or not, but I decided that I should compose a work with a Mexican feeling because I have none in my portfolio.
Due to I don't like Mariachis and most of post-columbine local music I chose something older:
The Concheros in the "Acueducto" - Queretaro, Mex.
This work is based on the rhythms of "Concheros", these are dancers who keep performing the original rituals of the Chichimecas Indians. I don't belong to this people but I have seen them many times. You can see them on this YouTube Video
The "Conchero" rhythms are basically a variety of 12/8 beats, performed by the lead drum called "Huehuetl" and the rest of dancers follow the beat with other percussion called "Coyoleras" (which are a sort of sleigh bells made of vegetable seeds that they carry on their feet) and "Sonajas" some shakers (sometimes made of metal).To give the true Conchero feeling to this work I do call for these 3 percussion (which are not difficult to find here in Mexico) the rest of content would have to be created by me because the Conchero music doesn't include very much elements but rhythm.I found this project difficult to achieve, because my personal style is usually far from these matters and perhaps not very much "compatible" with the ethnic element I planned to use. I think is normal if you feel some kind of conflict between different segments of the work, first because to this ethnic music has been rarely taken to a symphonic level, and because I was not able to mix both styles as good as I thought. Maybe you will say that this is nothing but one of my common works with the ethnic percussion added, could be truth, but the "Concheros" music doesn't have very much to offer either so, "fill" the rest with my personal music was the only option.
Other aspects I wanted to follow was to write a piece without a clear war segment, (because I very much tent to fall into that) for this I decided not to use the snare drum at all, kinda worked but you tell me... (Remove the xylophone too.)
About the Genre I handle here I don't think any of you know this genre well enough to write an extended critic (unless you tell me you know Carlos Chavez Sinfonia No.2 "India")... but I don't mean I don't want you comments, I do want the other kind of critic, the one from a person is not used to this and listen to it like any other audience.
About the Recording:
I created the samples of the Conchero percussion by editing samples of tenor drum (for the huehuetl) common sleigh-bells and shakers for the others.
Harp, Timpani, Bass drum, Cymbals and Tam-tam by GPO v.1
Ethnic percussion loaded into FL Studio working a VST
Rest of orchestra by EDIROL Orchestral.
Sequenced and Recorded on Sibelius 6.1
Note: These Indians have nothing to do with the ones you see in the western movies
I need to clean up this score, advices will be helpful.
Thanks, well percussion are always important to me, I think it was a good call to remove snare drum and others or it would have created a sort of conflict, this way the space is open for these ethnic ones.
I've been told this could have choreography but never thought on that before, is very short anyway... if a bunch of guys want to dance along the music, the can, as long as they play the percussion as in the score... that will be hard to do
I've been told this could have choreography but never thought on that before, is very short anyway... if a bunch of guys want to dance along the music, the can, as long as they play the percussion as in the score... that will be hard to do
Cool idea - this could hold its own very well as a Rite of Spring-like ballet indeed. I don't think its lenght is a problem, since the choreography could be a very exuberant, energetic one (the dancers giving it a pace that they wouldn't be able to keep in a longer work). Give it thoughts...
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But I must say that your work impresses me very much. The massive orchestration is already a trademark on your works, and this one is no exception - the percussion instruments given their expected prominent roles, but all the same keeping pace with an harmonical and melodical structure wisely shared between instruments. Hopefully we'll eventually hear a live performance someday.