A new-world collection of polyphony for holy week and the Salve service: Guatemala City, Cathedral Archive, Music MS 4

"Perhaps the most luxurious edition of Latin American colonial music to date, the volume describes in detail life in the Guatemala cathedral (1524-1606), presents an inventory of Guatemalan choirbooks, and reviews the liturgical and musical background for Holy Week music and music for the Salve...

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Format: Musical Score Book
Language:Latin
English
Published: Chicago u.a. Univ. of Chicago Press 1996
Series:Monuments of Renaissance music 9
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Summary:"Perhaps the most luxurious edition of Latin American colonial music to date, the volume describes in detail life in the Guatemala cathedral (1524-1606), presents an inventory of Guatemalan choirbooks, and reviews the liturgical and musical background for Holy Week music and music for the Salve Service and Compline. In addition to presenting transcriptions of Guatemalan Cathedral MS 4, each composition is given an individual commentary. Among composers represented are Santos de Alissseda, Antón de España, Pedro Bermúdez, Juan de Carbantes, Hernando Franco, Francisco Guerrero, Cristóbal de Morales, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Francisco de Peñalosa, and Alonso de Trujillo. An overview of this topic can be seen in Robert Snow's article 'Guatemala' (Revista de Musicología 16:3, 1993, p. 1209-1215)"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.. - http://www.loc.gov/hlas/
Physical Description:XI, 475 S. Faks.
ISBN:0226767442