 Higinio Angles and Juaquín Pena, Barcelona (Editorial Labor, S.A., 1954) 2143), the use of lament sighs such as "Ah" or "Ay," and a half-tone descent in the final two notes of its motif.In "Triste," Ginastera adds to these characteristics a sense of improvisational abandon, accentuating the hopelessness in this traditional text.The melody combines diatonic and pentatonic elements, characteristic of Incan pentatonic scales, with the reiterated tone G and its embellishing quartal grace notes in the introduction serving to establish "the pentatonic flavor of the succeeding melody" (Wallace, 86).