From Serra to Sancho
Music and Pageantry in the California Missions
Series: Currents in Latin American & Iberian Music;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 30 July 2009
- ISBN 9780195343274
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages480 pages
- Size 152x231x38 mm
- Weight 822 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 36 half tone, 41 line illustrations 0
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Short description:
Music in the California missions was a pluralistic combination of voices and instruments, of liturgy and spectacle, of styles and functions-and even of cultures-in a new blend that was non-existent before the Franciscan friars' arrival in 1769. This book explores aesthetic, stylistic, historical, cultural, theoretical, liturgical, and biographical aspects of this repertoire. Containing a "Catalogue of Mission Manuscripts," 150+ facsimiles, translations of primary documents, and performance-ready music reconstructions.
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Music in the California missions was a pluralistic combination of voices and instruments, of liturgy and spectacle, of styles and functions-and even of cultures-in a new blend that was non-existent before the Franciscan friars made their way to California beginning in 1769. This book explores the exquisite sacred music that flourished on the West Coast of America when it was under Spanish and Mexican rule; it delves into the historical, cultural, biographical, and stylistic aspects of California mission music during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The book explores how mellifluous plainchant, reverent hymns, spunky folkloric ditties, "classical" music in the style of Haydn, and even Native American drumming were interwoven into a tapestry of resonant beauty. Aspects of music terminology, performance practice, notation, theory, sacred song, hymns, the sequence, the mass, and pageantry are addressed. Russell draws upon hundreds of primary documents in California, Mexico, Madrid, Barcelona, London, and Mallorca, and it is through the melding together of this information from geographically separated places that he brings the mystery of California's mission music into sharper focus. In addition to extensive musical analysis, the book also examines such things as cultural context, style, scribal attribution, instructions to musicians, government questionnaires, invoices, the liturgy, architectural space where performances took place, spectacle, musical instruments, instrument construction, shipping records, travelers' accounts, letters, diaries, passenger lists, baptismal and burial records, and other primary source material. Within this book one finds considerable biographical information about Junípero Serra, Juan Bautista Sancho, Narciso Durán, Florençio Ibáñez, Pedro Cabot, Martín de Cruzelaegui, Ignacio de Jerusalem, and Francisco Javier García Fajer. Furthermore, it contains five far-reaching appendices: a Catalogue of Mission Sources; Photos of Missions and Mission Manuscripts (with over 150 color facsimiles); Translations of Primary Texts; Music Editions (that are performance-ready); and an extensive Bibliography.
Craig Russel's new monograph is a wonderful addition to the rich body of musicological and historical literature
Table of Contents:
: Music Style and Performance in Mission Life,: Notation and Music Theory,Serra and the Introduction of Sacred Song: Veni Creator Spiritus, Salve, Te Deum, & Alabado ,: Song, Sequence, Dance & Pageantry,: Juan Bautista Sancho: Tracing the Mallorcan Connection,: Music for the Mass: A Spectrum of Artistic Invention,: Classical Masses for Voices and Orchestra by Ignacio, Epilogue
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