La_noche_de_los_mayas_(suite)
La noche de los mayas (Revueltas)
1939 film score by Silvestre Revueltas
La noche de los mayas is a film score by the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas for the 1939 film of the same name, Revueltas's score consists of 36 sequences without any organic relation to one another, composed to be easily fitted to an already-edited film.
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After Revueltas' death in 1940, the film score was arranged for performance in the concert hall. There are at least two such arrangements, that of the German composer Paul Hindemith and that of the Mexican conductor José Yves Limantour . Both arrangers feature percussion sections which relate to Mexico's pre-Columbian heritage, but Limantour altered Revueltas' score more extensively.[1]