Music in Aztec & Inca territory / Robert Stevenson.
| Author/creator | Stevenson, Robert |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press, [1968] |
| Description | xi, 378 pages : music ; 27 cm |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Music in Aztec and Inca territory |
| Contents | Part I: The Aztec area. The challenge of Aztec music -- Aztec music at contact: a survey of existing literature. Reviving interest in precontact music ; The "Aztec" renaissance ; Methods used by contemporary scholars in the study of preconquest music ; Aztec musical instruments in museums and codices ; Alphabetical synopsis ; Reaction of European-born observers to aboriginal music ; Contribution of the missionaries to our understanding of Indian culture ; Conclusions drawn from sixteenth-century reports by eyewitnesses. Pedro de Gante (1480?-1572) ; Toribio de Motolinía (1490?-1565) ; Bernardino de Sahagún (1500?-1590) ; Francisco López de Gómara (1511-1566) ; Alonso de Molina (1514?-1585) ; Diego de Landa (1524-1579) ; Diego Durán (1537-1588) ; Gerónimo de Mendieta (1525-1604) ; Antonio de Cibdad Real (1551-1617) ; Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century redactors ; Absence of musical quotations in sixteenth-century chronicles of preconquest life ; The melodic system of the early aborigines ; Xtoles ; Sinfonia India ; Future of Aztec research -- Acculturation: the colonial phase. Aptitude of the Indians ; Music as an aid in conversion ; The resulting superfluity of Indian singers and instrumentalists ; The musical achievement of Indian choirs ; Music printing during the sixteenth century ; Description of sixteenth-century Mexican imprints containing music ; Present-day significance of sixteenth-century music imprints ; A posthumous imprint (1604) ; Gebrauchsmusik in New Spain ; Music in commemorative acts ; Indian participation in public galas ; Two Aztecan chanzonetas (ca. 1599) ; Secular music and musicians in the young colony -- Part II: The Inca area. Instruments used by the Incas and thier predecessors. Antaras ; Pincollos (= pincullus) and quenaquenas ; Qquepas ; Dictionary names for instruments ; Literary allusions -- Music teaching in the Inca area: before and after the conquest. Antiquity of formal instruction ; Missionary methods and repertory ; Secular musicians of the conquest epoch -- Peruvian "folk music," 1500-1790: literary and musical sources for a fresh study. Huamán Poma de Ayala (1534?-1615) ; Bernabé Cobo (1572-1659) ; Cuzco Festival (1610) ; The Yaraví ; Negro folk music ; Antonio Pereyra y Ruiz' Arequipa "Notice" ; Gregorio de Zuola (1645?-1709) ; Amédée François Frézier (1682-1773) ; Baltasar Jaime Martínez Compañón (1737-1797) ; Late colonial "society" dance music ; Bolivian Indian music. |
| Abstract | This book is a comprehensive, expert and readable study on Aztec and Incan music. The author examines the musical cultures at the time of first contact with Europeans and also Mesoamerican and Andean highland musical traditions up to 1800. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: pages 335-364. |
| LCCN | 67022715 |
| ISBN | 9780520031692 |
| ISBN | 0520031695 |
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