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	~~== Instrumentation ==~~		Player I: <br>
	Player I: ~~Marimba, orchestra bells~~<br>		Player II: <br>
	Player II: ~~Vibraphone, conga~~ <br>		Player III: <br>
	Player III: ~~Xylophone, orchestra bells~~<br>		Player IV: <br>
	Player IV: ~~Vibraphone, temple blocks~~<br>		Player V: <br>
	Player V: ~~Timpani, tambourine, bongos, triangle, gong, tubular chimes, susp. cymbals~~<br>		Player VI: <br>
			Player VII: <br>
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	The work’s Mexican roots are reflected in the use of several popular Mexican folk songs, most prominently A la puerta del cielo (At the Gate of Heaven) and La realidad (Reality). Other melodies are El Colúmpico, Los pronunciados, Jacinto Treviño and Laredo. All of the Mexican melodies are combined in a quodlibet at the center of the work, where the living and the spirits of the dead are united. Two other, highly contrastive, musical elements are a two-chord dirge-like chaconne to depict the Aztec land of the dead and, as a European liturgical reference, the Gregorian chant Offertorium for All Saints’ Day: Exultabunt Sancti in Gloria (The Saints Rejoice in Glory). <ref>http://www.robertxavierrodriguez.com/infosheets/eldiamuerto.html</ref>		The work’s Mexican roots are reflected in the use of several popular Mexican folk songs, most prominently A la puerta del cielo (At the Gate of Heaven) and La realidad (Reality). Other melodies are El Colúmpico, Los pronunciados, Jacinto Treviño and Laredo. All of the Mexican melodies are combined in a quodlibet at the center of the work, where the living and the spirits of the dead are united. Two other, highly contrastive, musical elements are a two-chord dirge-like chaconne to depict the Aztec land of the dead and, as a European liturgical reference, the Gregorian chant Offertorium for All Saints’ Day: Exultabunt Sancti in Gloria (The Saints Rejoice in Glory). <ref>http://www.robertxavierrodriguez.com/infosheets/eldiamuerto.html</ref>
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	Commissioned by Bradford and Dorothea Endicott <br>		Commissioned by Bradford and Dorothea Endicott <br>
	for Frank Epstein and the New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble<br>		for Frank Epstein and the New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble<br>

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