The text of Ecwatorial is taken from the sacred book of the Maya Quiché, the Popul Vub,* and is part of the invocation of the tribe lost in the mountains, having left the “City of Abundance.” The title is merely suggestive of the regions where pre-Colombian art flourished. I conceived the music as having something of the same elemental rude intensity of those strange, primitive works. The execution should be dramatic and incantatory, guided by the imploring fervor of the text, and should follow the dynamic indications of the score. E.V. * In the Spanish translation of Father Jimines.Invocation from the Popol-Vub translated from the Spanish © Builders, © Moulders! You see. You hear. Do not abandon us Spirit of the Sky, Spirit of the Earth. Give us our descendants, our posterity as long as there are days, as long as there are dawns. May green roads be many, the green paths you give us. Peaceful, very peaceful may the tribes be. Perfect, very, perfect may life be, the existence you give us O Master Giant, Path of the Lightning, Falcon! Master-magi, Powers of the sky, Procreators, Begetters! Ancient Mystery, Ancient Sorceress, Ancestress of the Day, Ancestress of the Dawn! Let there be germina- tion, let there be Dawn. Hail Beauties of the Day, Givers of Yellow, of Green! Givers of Daughters, of Sons! Give life, existence to my children, to my descend- ants, Let not your power, let not your sorcery be their evil and their misfortune. May it be happy, the life of your upholders, your providers before your mouths, before your faces, Spirit of the Sky, Spirit of the Earth, Give Life, Give Life! Give Life, All-Enveloping Force in the Sky, on the earth, at the four corners, at the four extremities, as long as dawn exists, as long as the tribe exists!Instrumentation: 4 Trumpets 4 Trombones Piano Organ Ondes Martenot Percussion: Timpani 2 Snare Drums 2 Tenor Drums 3 Bass Drums 2 Tam Tams Gong Cymbals Suspended Cymbal Temple Blocks Tambourine ORGAN: Since some conductors are not familiar with the organ, in the orchestral score the organ part is written as it should come out for the ear. The organist’s part is written as it should be played. The stops, however, are not indicated, as all organs are not the same, and the choice is left to the conductor and organist, with che exception of the vox celesta, the vox humana, and other similar effects, which must never be used.toL.V. ECUATORIAL Edgard Varése Tima as, Cymer > © Copyright 1961 by Colfranc Music Publishing Corp., New Yorkondes 6 a bee see 2 Tenor an 3 Pe srorge tases armenOren 3 ste 2.gen sear “era 3 bon oraOresnas sord) rao Frambour sti rep. kin ste, 4 iorg sede 2 ey Tormbour etch,orgen 3 od sik FS ope Tener a 2 cymes © om eeorgan snee, Tener 5 amboor10 onder organ Fag 2 bens ts Tempe ins? et4) 46 paded_ ee ‘tick a rast vty "F Sa ows Terps P =) = omg uv + Retamente gs — x organ 2 wire rash (rab) snen 2 Tambour stich sna Tonvourig| amp seh Vag FE — aa obi ra so orig13 dese Finger 2 Toman ¢ on)14 cola wee gy em Organ import 2 pases a wire brush “2B Tamia sick 2 ess ar a ub with thud imines 6 shih, mg oa we15 os ones 3 5m te Tingeni 2 se ae sade ons ens Tambowind omg16 —t~———~« ard Borses _Speten- raucoustrewer) iat MIBEG ip hoe tavonaas coi portat' A sme, 2 tener ae 3 Temborins ow17 gussipies 3034, AD NOS MUESTRADES CEOEN- CIA NUS = TAL FORTE: Me ar = Dr, “cons 1 thigh) Wasim Tan | 218 £19 organ sons UE VOSOTROE NOE OIE ove rans Tenor 2 sence 3 con be fine “en =f Tambourine om oe20 Tanbearind cms oe my Talc (w+ membrane and ri simulteneusly21 ab rarity date” Orson e 3 cym lL “amtom i 2 at it with boo 4 Gale Bass2 ong am Ton cymes 5 com 6 eae23 sea 2 Tamboug sey Tene 3 Bae” > HOS ip sick P24 om. 625 cotta ace poe organ ote Hoe seer26 oven 3 ee. Ban? Bedlee 3 ese crm g P 4b simultaneously on the rim and membrane27 soe 2 sae, | aes cm eae28 snde 9) oss ae * Tomtom Timbuw5 Bde #0orgen Lo tomtem* Bde dseo tin 29orem 3 Ards nape | snee 2 tam stick | —3— ‘anor 663 em Tapgie 531 organ etary ity 4+ K lone lower Hhan writen nal T= lone higher than wrikten rote32 3 sade cat slg Red sok) [pitch mut be observed 5pa fr A: OOREE OE RUNGE IDE ee ea34 235 mame oper Bate? see 5 Timbeures Ppmnge shck36 Sede Tenor bese, ‘as Tomb cm 6 Bae rune woesaa po-TERCA dsi20 aRe de10038 orgen cenze std 5 Trampers enzo sor, 7 cym eae oni teh TapaogeeTenor te 2 Bane ara41 organ Tey 4 oe F Bass deste p crm.42 organ Teneo Put ——S——]S = eo oe = sponge stiok iene sticks 2orgon e Gensa| snd) “IDI. corms sot) 2 37 (aun sor) A Tramows sem sot Zo A F sea 2 anor de 3 besnen, & commas TannaSng. 2 wore. 5 f=45 snée 2 Tenor ae 3 om-ren6sete seas perry Temeavine cm 6nae =48 orgen Trumpets sence sot) mas | Py Peef Fetus pep crmenor 3 550 MDa Tots) _ ee tarps(cr a —52 san F tick 8 Gong TomTomOren sn sade y54 ovgen Tombou3 om Bae55 organ56 organ sae