Catálogo de la Colección de Música del Archivo Histórico de la Arquidiócesis de Durango

Early Music, 2008

Thanks to a detailed inventory dated 1589 recently found in Mexico Cathedral, it is possible to reconstruct the polyphonic repertory performed there in the 16th century. This document shows how Spanish and European music, both manuscript and printed, quickly reached Mexico and formed part of the music performed as part of the liturgy of one of the most important cathedrals in the New World. The inventory is signifi cant not only for the variety, breadth and detail of its contents, but also because it allows this reconstruction of the pre-1600 repertory in use at the cathedral even though almost all the musical sources themselves have been lost, and even more so because very few such inventories from this early have been found in Hispano-American cathedrals. The inventory includes printed collections of works by Josquin, Colin, Morales, Francisco and Pedro Guerrero and Victoria, as well as Latin- and Castilian-texted by renowned European composers such as Verdelot and Lassus, and local composers such as Carabantes and Franco. Although the repertory included in the inventory refl ects the musico-liturgical needs of a single institution at a given moment, it also refl ects the kind of music available in a New World cathedral towards the end of the 16th century. This article includes an analysis of the contents of the inventory and emphasizes the importance of this new document, lost for over 60 years since it was briefl y mentioned in an article by Lota M. Spell. © The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.

Plainsong and Medieval Music , 2015

Fontes Artis Musicae 66, No. 1, 2019

The Church of San Francisco de Quito, founded in 1534 by a Franciscan commission led by friars Jodocus Rickye and Pierre Gosseal, represents an important place not only in terms of culture and history, but also in terms of musical historiography. The church’s library holds a valuable collection of thirty-eight music manuscripts dating from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. This article provides a description of the whole collection and sheds new lights on the history of liturgy and plainchant in Ecuador and Latin America. The article also includes brief notes about the collection’s history, its connection with Iberian and Flemish roots, and some relevant liturgical feasts and repertoire.

2019

It is impossible to do an exhaustive analysis of the Spanish American musical heritage without approaching interaction studies with Spanish sources, especially during the 16th to 18th centuries, when the existence of 'The Spains' was a political and cultural reality, and processes of interchange between the cultures of the New and the Old Worlds were taking place. The Santiago de Cuba Cathedral, founded in 1522, is the oldest archive of music documentation in the country. Although its most ancient repertoire, composed in Cuba, preserves the musical creations of Esteban Salas (Havana, 1725-Santiago de Cuba, 1803), chapel master of the Santiago de Cuba Cathedral from 1764 to 1803, it also treasures, in copies he made, the testimony of Spanish composers’ musical works that circulated in the New World. After an arduous process of identification, it has been verified that some copies – as those by the 16th century polyphonists – come from edited repertoires. Others, however, are still considered unique sources, since there is no news of their having been located in the Iberian Peninsula. This is the case, for example, of some works by Diego Durón (ca. 1653-1731) and Juan del Vado (ca. 1625-1691), that are found in the Cuban Cathedral. The purpose of this article is to unravel the origin of these repertoires, specify the reasons why they were copied, and define the aesthetic transformations they suffered through time, according with the liturgical function for which they were intended.

https://vimeo.com/album/4456793/video/206524523 (see from minute 29 | vease desde el minuto 29) Video taken from | tomado de: Music Library Association 86th Annual Meeting 22-26 February 2017 in Orlando, FL

Fontes Artis Musicae, 2016

Fahrenkrog, Laura y Fernanda Vera, “Recently Catalogued Music Archives and Fonds in Santiago, Chile: A Contribution to the Dissemination of Written Musical Heritage of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”, Fontes Artis Musicae, vol. 63, nº2, abril-junio 2016, pp. 100-119.

Musicology Australia, 1992