José Pablo Moncayo (1912-1958)

Nationality: Mexican

Born: June 29, 1912, Guadalajara Died: June 16, 1958, Mexico City (age 46)

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Huapango for String Quartet

(for 2 violins, viola and cello)

Duration: 9 minutes (approximately)

Composed: 1941 (age 28-29)

2 recordings, 2 videos

8:23

Orchestral

8:52

Chamber ensemble

chamber music, Kammermusik [G], musique de chambre [F], musica da camera [I], musica cameralis [L]—"Classical Music" for a small ensemble, generally 8 or fewer players with a canonical emphasis on 3-6 players. explore
Huapango—A Mexican musical style and lively dance of Spanish origin popular around the Gulf of Mexico. The huapango is a rhythmic style of the Son Huasteco genre. 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. wikipedia
transcription, transcribe—To re-score a work for an ensemble of instruments different from the original version. Typical examples include orchestrating piano or chamber works and visa versa. Within the realm of chamber music, a work for winds might be transcribed for strings, a symphony into a string quartet, a trio featuring a clarinet substituting a viola. One interesting question is: who made the transcription, the original composer? One interesting effect is that the transcription may become favored over the original. One of the most curious transcriptions in all of chamber music is Schoenberg's "Verklärte Nacht", transcribed from string sextet to piano trio with amazing success by one of his students.