Alcancías

Alcancías takes as its subject a very typical product of Mexican popular art, those multicolored pottery penny-banks, usually small and in the form of a pig or fish, which generally must be broken in order to remove the money inside.

[4] An off-balance five-bar introduction featuring melodic fragments with strong accents on the off-beats leads to the opening theme of the first main section, a folk-like melody in parallel thirds.

"It serves as an excellent example of Revueltas’s predilection for triple subdivisions and the creative way in which he applied and combined them to create extended, more elaborate forms".

[8] The strings and winds in the high register above a rumbling accompaniment creates a moment of tension that "extends beyond everything and suggests a disruption of the underworld".

Formal aspects take a secondary place to the natural developmental unfolding of folk thematic material in the improvisatory manner characteristic of the huapango.