Ecuatorial
General Info
Year: 1934 / 1961
Duration: c. 11:30
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Colfranc Music Publishing
Cost: Parts Only - Unknown | Score Only (print) - $29.95
Instrumentation
Full Score
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III-IV
Piano
Organ
Ondes Martenot I-II
Timpani I-II
Percussion I-VI, including:
- Bass Drums (3)
- Crash Cymbals
- Gong
- Snare Drums (2)
- Suspended Cymbals
- Tam-tams (3: large, medium and high)
- Tambourine
- Temple Blocks (2)
- Tenor Drums (2)
Bass Choir
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The text of Ecuatorial is taken from the sacred book of the Maya Quiché, the Popul Vuh, and is part of the invocation of the tribe lost in the mountains, having left the "City of Abundance." The title is merely suggestive of the regions where pre-Colombian art flourished. I conceived the music as having something of the same elemental rude intensity of those strange, primitive works.
- Program Note by composer
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Ensemble InterContemporain (Paris, France) and the Bass Choir of Radio France (Paris, France) (Susanna Mälkki, conductor) – 20 November 2012
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Dance for Burgess (ed. Chou) (1949/2002)
- Déserts (1953/1959/2000)
- Ecuatorial (1950-54/1959/1961)
- Intégrales (1925)
- Intégrales (ed. Chou Wen-Chung) (1925/1980/2000)
- Ionisation (1931/1933/2000)
- Hyperprism (1923)
- Octandre (1924)
Resources
- Varèse, E. (1961). Ecuatorial [score]. Colfranc: New York.