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Huapango!
José Pablo Moncayo (trans. Leroy Osmon)
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General Info
Year: 1929 / 1941 / 1986
Duration: c. 8:00
Difficulty: V-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Peer Music Classical
Cost: Score and Parts - $95.00 | Score Only - $24.95
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The huapango is a lively Mexican dance of Spanish origin that is especially popular in the lands along the Gulf of Mexico. Performed by singers and instrumental ensembles ranging from a duo of guitars to a full mariachi band, it is characterized by a complex rhythmic structure mixing duple and triple meters which reflect the intricate steps of the dance. The huapango is danced by men and women as couples: the men sing, the women do not. Nicolas Slonimsky explained that the word huapango "is derived either from a native vocable meaning ‘on a wooden stand’ (the huapango is danced on a platform), or it may be a contraction of Huaxtecas de Pango. Huaxtecas means a tropical valley, and Pango is the ancient name of the river Panuco."
Moncayo’s Huapango of 1941, his first important work for orchestra, is based on three authentic folk dances: Siqui Siri, Balajú and El Gavilán. The piece is arranged in three sections, with fiery music at beginning and end recalling the manner of huapango singing in coplas (i.e., the song is shouted alternately between two men singers, here transmuted by Moncayo into a trombone—trumpet dialogue) surrounding a slower central portion based on a lyrical melody. Huapango is a brilliant study in orchestral sonority and vibrant dance rhythms about which the French composer Darius Milhaud once told José Antonio Alcaraz, "When in the grey light of a Parisian winter, I want there to be sun in my flat, I listen to a record of Huapango."
- Program Note by Richard Rodda
Media
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State Ratings
- Tennessee: VI
Performances
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- Andrews University (Berrien Springs, Mich.) Wind Symphony (Byron Graves, conductor) - 28 January 2023
- Santa Fe (N.M.) Concert Band (Gregory Heltman, conductor) – 7 May 2022 (ACB 2022 Annual Convention (Santa Fe, New Mexico))
- California State Polytechnic University Humboldt Wind Ensemble (Paul Cummings, conductor) - 29 April 2022
- University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) Concert Band (Courtney Snyder, conductor) - 29 September 2021
- Triangle Wind Ensemble (Cary, N.C.) (Evan Feldman, conductor) - 30 May 2021
- University of South Florida (Tampa) Symphonic Band (Michael Lebrias, conductor) – 25 February 2020
- Central Michigan University (Mount Pleasant) Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Chris Chapman, conductor) – 8 November 2019
- United States Air Force Band (Washington, D.C.) (Dennis Zeisler, conductor) - 8 March 2019 (84th Annual ABA National Convention)
- Sanger (Calif.) High School Wind Ensemble (Dan Peña, conductor) - 16 March 2019 (2019 Sutherland Wind Festival (Fresno, Calif.)
- University of Michigan Concert Band (Courtney Snyder, conductor) – 7 October 2015
- University of Hawaii Wind Ensemble (Jeffrey Boeckman, conductor) – 13 December 2013
- California State University, Los Angeles, Wind Ensemble (Abel Ramirez, conductor) – 20 March 2008 (CBDNA 2008 Western/Northwestern Division Conference, Reno, Nev.)
Works for Winds by This Composer
Resources
- Moncayo, J.; Osmon, L. (1986). Haupango! [score]. Peer-Southern Concert Music: New York.