Sweet Penance of Music

Musical Life in Colonial Santiago de Chile
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-19-094021-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA

Buch, Englisch, 454 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 259 mm, Gewicht: 998 g

Reihe: Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music

A monumental study of musical practices in 18th century Santiago de Chile, and the only English-language monograph about Chilean colonial music, A Sweet Penance of Music offers a comprehensive view of musicians within the city and their links with other Latin American urban centers in the wider colonial system. Author Alejandro Vera, recent winner of the International Casa de las Américas Musicology Prize for the Spanish edition of his monograph, provides a fascinating account of the quotidian cultural and social significance of music in varying physical spheres - from cathedrals, convents, and monasteries, to private houses and public spaces. He brings to life a city long neglected in the shadow of other colonial centers of economic power, asserting the importance of duality in the period and its music - particularly centering one nun harpist's conception of music as "sweet penance." Drawing from historical documents and musical scores of the period, A Sweet Penance of Music breaks new ground, laying the foundation for a revisionist approach to the study of music in the colonial Americas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vera, Alejandro

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre

Über Autor(innen)

Alejandro Vera is Associate Professor at the Music Institute of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is the author of Santiago de Murcia: Cifras selectas de guitarra and Música vocal profana en el Madrid de Felipe IV, and has published in journals including Acta musicologica, Early Music, and Latin American Music Review.