Musical Borrowing
An Annotated Bibliography

Individual record

[+] Mayer-Serra, Otto. "Silvestre Revueltas and Musical Nationalism in Mexico." The Musical Quarterly 27 (April 1941): 123-45.

Revueltas never used actual folk melodies in his music, but he evoked regional tunes such as the Tarascan son and the Michoacan corrido by modeling his melodies on their characteristic features, thus creating a Mexican nationalist music.

Works: Revueltas: Caminos (131-32), Cuauhnahuac (130), Janitzio (129-30, 133), The Wave (132-33).

Index Classifications: 1900s

Contributed by: Nancy Kinsey Totten



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