Title
Las Agachadas
For
double mixed chorus (SSAATTBB)
Alternate Title
  • The Shake-Down Song (English Title)
Year Composed
1942
ARCO Number(s)
48
Category
Choral
Duration
3'
Text Information
Spanish traditional text and English translation.
Premiere
  • World: New York, May 25th, 1942 (Schola Cantorum, cond. Hugh Ross)
Commission Info
Hugh Ross and the Schola Cantorum of New York
Publisher
Boosey & Hawkes
Publishing Status
Published
Buying Options
Boosey & Hawkes

  • Hugh Ross, conductor of the Schola Cantorum, commissioned a composition to honor the first conductor of the Schola, Kurt Schindler, who had been responsible for bringing to light many unknown and forgotten folk songs. Copland chose a "dance-song" from Burgos in northern Spain. The song is written for two groups of singers — a solo group and an eight-part mixed chorus. Copland wrote, "I hoped to give the song a realistic native feeling."

    Author
    Vivian Perlis
    Year
    1998
  • This work is an arrangement of melody no. 202 in Kurt Schindler's collection Folk Music and Poetry of Spain and Portugal.