Música de feria

Música de feria (Fair Music) is a composition for string quartet by the Mexican composer and violinist Silvestre Revueltas, written in 1932.

Música de feria was completed on 25 March 1932 and first performed on 7 November 1933 by the Cuarteto Clásico (violinists Ezequiel Sierra and David Saloma, violist David Elizarrarás, and cellist Teófilo Ariza) at the Teatro Hidalgo in Mexico City.

[3] Música de feria is written in a single movement which nevertheless incorporates the structure and development of a traditional quartet.

A distinctive feature is the simultaneous presentation of independent melodic lines in each part but within a single rhythmic pattern.

[4] Alternatively, the quartet is regarded as falling into just three large sections, each of which consists of a succession of three contrasting subsections.