1. A la francesa
2. A la americana
3. A la española

05-11-1961 Chamber Orchestra from Juventuts Musicals de Barcelona, conductor: Rafael Ferrer. Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona.

Symphonic version: 09-02-1962 Orquestra Municipal de Barcelona, conductor: Rafael Ferrer. Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona.

Also entitled Tres variacions rítmiques and Tres dances incertes.

Jordi Codina made an arrangement for guitar quartet entitled Tres danses concertants.

Comments

"The idea was to create three dances that, while maintaining a certain unity, were of a very different character without departing from the concertante style: a la francaise (approaching the French overtures of the 18th century, with a contrapuntal and solemn air); in the American style, searching among the typical cadences of Latin American music for the most peculiar dynamics and a colonial and nostalgic atmosphere, I found the effects of an "almost Havanera" that is assimilated into the "antillanist" trend of my work; and finally, a "la Andaluza", it approaches the specific character of Andalusian music without including any folkloric themes, on the contrary, running away from this through a vaguely polytonal language."

Xavier Montsalvatge, 1991.