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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Russell, Craig H. From Serra to Sancho. New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 (DLC) 2008018417 (OCoLC)227000176 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Craig H Russell |
ISBN: | 9780199711185 0199711186 |
OCLC Number: | 434841489 |
Awards: | Winner of Winner of the California Mission Studies Association's Edna Kimbro Award. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 457 pages) : illustrations |
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 de Jerusalem García Fajer. |
Series Title: | Currents in Latin American & Iberian music. |
Responsibility: | Craig H. Russell. |
Abstract:
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 mell.
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Craig Russel's new monograph is a wonderful addition to the rich body of musicological and historical literature * Kristen Dutcher Mann, The Journal of Eighteenth-Century Music *
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