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Toccata for Percussion Instruments

work by Chávez

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  • Chávez, Carlos
    In Carlos Chávez

    The Toccata for percussion instruments (1942) is scored for 11 types of percussion instruments, some of them indigenous, played by six performers. Chávez’s other works include the ballet Los cuatro soles (1925; “The Four Suns”), Xochipilli Macuilxochitl for orchestra with indigenous instruments (1940), the Violin Concerto…

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