Biblioteca de la Guitarra y Cuerda Pulsada

Biblioteca de la Guitarra y Cuerda Pulsada

Autor: Shirley M. S mith

The History and Use of Music in Colonial Spanish America 1500-1750

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Decidnos canciones de un pueblo y, os diremos sus 1eyes, sus costumbres y su historia, is an old Spanish proverb which means, "Tell us the songs of a people and we will tell you its laws,  its customs and its history,   and the music of Hispanic America is a living example of the wisdom of this old saying.  But the recounting of the history of this music during the Spanish Colonial period, a time during which its foundations were laid, is only one of the pur_ poses of this thesis.  Its second, and perhaps more important purpose, is to show how music had a definite political and social iDportance in Latin American society; and how it was used most successfully, by both the Spanish missionary and by his official companion as a means of pacifying, civilizing and Christianizing the natives of the colonies.

The tone of this thesis is sometimes very general, because defini te material or data was unavailable.  It r.1Ust  be remembered that there is no written record of any of the pre-Conquest Indian music, and that much of the information used herein, dates from after the entrance of the Spaniards into the New World. It has been assumed that the musical culture found by the Spaniards had existed for some time,  and that the music described by the first chroniclers was therefore the music of the pre-Conquest period...

Smith, Shirley M., " The History and Use of Music in Colonial Spanish America 1500-1750" (1948). Master' s Theses. Paper 808.
http://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_theses/808

Loyola University Chicago

The History and Use of Music in Colonial Spanish America 1500-1750


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