In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13

329 Pages·2015·21.164 MB·English

by  alejandro L. Madrid

In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13
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Alejandro L. Madrid
In Search of
Julián Carrillo
and Sonido 13
Alejandro L. Madrid
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Madrid, Alejandro L.
In search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13 / Alejandro L. Madrid.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978–0–19–021578–1 (hardcover) — ISBN 978–0–19–021579–8
(companion website)— ISBN 978–0–19–021581–1 (ebook)
1. Carrillo, Julián, 1875–1965—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Microtonal
music—History and criticism. 3. Music—Mexico—20th century—History
and criticism. I. Title.
ML410.C329M33 2015
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Para Marina Alejandrovna, por llegar cuando llegas
In Memoriam Alejandro Madrid Solís.
Thanks for the example.
Thanks for the music.
Thanks for setting the bar so high.
In Memoriam Omar Hernández-Hidalgo.
Violist extraordinaire and irreplaceable ally
whose untimely death reminds us of
the madness Mexico has become.

CONTENTS
List of Figures  ix
List of Music Examples  xi
Acknowledgments  xv
About the Companion Website  xxi
1. Introduction: The Non-Linear Story of a Cultural Complex 1
2. Imitation, Ideology, Performativity,
and Carrillo’s Symphony No. 1 32
3. “… y hermosísima patria será”: National and Post-National
Transfigurations in Matilde 70
4. Modernism, Teleology, and Identity: Toward a Cultural
Understanding of Early Sonido 13 103
5. Reading Carrillo: The Future That Never Was 136
6. Continuities and Discontinuities in an Imaginary Cycle: The
Thirteen String Quartets 166
7. Experimentalism, Mythology, the Intermundane, and Sonido 13
after Julián Carrillo 213
8. Estrangement, Performance, and Performativity: Musicking
Sonido 13 255
Bibliography 287
Index 299

FIGURES
1.1 Julián Carrillo in the early 1960s. 15
1.2 Stamp of Julián Carrillo. The back includes a brief
biographical sketch. Ediciones RAF. 22
1.3 Plate of Mexican composers. Julián Carrillo appears
in the second row of the second column. Ediciones Sun
Rise. 23
1.4 Cover of Biografías para niños. Julián Carrillo. 24
2.1 Composers included during the 1899–1902 seasons of the
Gewandhausorchester. 43
2.2 Musical examples in Julián Carrillo’s Tratado sintético de
harmonía. 45
2.3 Comparative chart. Form in the manuscript and
printed version of Carrillo’s Symphony No. 1, first
movement. 56
2.4 Form in the piano reduction of Carrillo’s Symphony
No. 1, first movement. 62
3.1 Program of the 2010 premiere of Julián Carrillo’s
Matilde. 72
3.2 José Luis Ordóñez and Zaira Soria as León and Matilde
during the premiere of Matilde in 2010. Copyright by
Fernando López/SCGSLP, 2010. Used by permission. 83
3.3 José Luis Ordóñez and Zaira Soria as León and Matilde
acting the suicide scene during the premiere of Matilde
in 2010. Copyright by Marina Cruz Martínez, 2010.
Used by permission. 86
4.1 Microtonal notation used in Julián Carrillo, Preludio a Colón
(1924). 113
4.2 Carrillo, Preludio a Colón. Formal design. 113