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Flor De Piña
Composer:	Traditional
Media Type:	Score
Publisher:	Traditional
Genre:	Mexican Traditional
Length:	3 Minutes

Pineapple Flower

Difficulty

4 of 11.

Primary Instrumentation

Marimba

Number of Performers

3

Instrumentation

Marimba -- any number of players (although the original recording was performed by three).

Brief Review

This piece is not widely available but I have a hand-written transcription of the melody in my library.

As far as I can tell this tune was brought to North America from Oaxaca, Mexico by Lilian Mendelssohn, a musicologist with the Smithsonian Institute. There in Oaxaca, she heard two marimba groups led by Faustino González Rivera and captured his marimba bands on tape.

In that early recording, which now resides in the Smithsonian, a three-man marimba band performed this piece and Lilian Mendelssohn explains that during the performance there was a constant river of people and chickens walking by or dancing.

Composition ID: 106
In Dave's Personal Library: Yes
Dave has Performed: Yes
Transaction Type: Display Only
Transaction Status: In Library
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At the museum of modern art in New York City a few Sundays ago, an orchestra of earnest, dressed-up musicians sat on the stage and began to hit things with sticks and hands...The audience, which was very high-brow, listened intently without seeming to be disturbed at the noisy results...The occassion was a percussion concert.

Life Magazine, 1943