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THE CIRCULATION OF INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BETWEEN OLD AND NEW WORLDS: NEW EVIDENCE FROM SOURCES PRESERVED IN MEXICO CITY AND LIMA

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ALEJANDRO VERA
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This article deals with the circulation of instrumental music between Spain and the New World at the end of the eighteenth century, focusing on Madrid, Mexico City and Lima as main urban centres. By analysing archival documents preserved in these cities, I intend to show that the baroque guitar music composed and copied in Madrid was also intended to be a commercial concern in Latin America (particularly in Mexico City and Lima), and that its cultivation in the New World lasted for a long time, even through to the beginning of the nineteenth century, thus coexisting with music by Johann Christian Bach, Boccherini, Cannabich, Haydn and other ‘modern’ composers. These assertions are reinforced through an examination of two musical manuscripts copied in Lima around 1800, which also shows some of the changes undergone by the repertory during its complex process of reception. I conclude by suggesting that, in the light of all this, a linear and evolutionary view of music history, according to which new repertories replace older ones, should be reconsidered.

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Eighteenth-Century Music , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , September 2015 , pp. 183 - 196
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20 References to that inventory can be found in Lemmon, Alfred E., ‘Towards an Inventory of Music Theory Books in Colonial Mexico’, Anuario Musical 33–35 (1978–1980), 134–137Google Scholar. It has been recently published in a facsimile edition by Rodríguez-Erdmann, Francisco Javier, Tesoros del AGN: dos inventarios musicales novohispanos (Mexico City: Archivo General de la Nación, Editorial IEV, 2013), 71–74Google Scholar.

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29 A digital copy can be found in the Petrucci Music Library. See <http://conquest.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/f/fd/IMSLP78278-PMLP01678-Haydn_H-XVI-22_autograph.pdf> (25 October 2014).

30 As James Grier states, a ‘separative error’ (one showing ‘that a particular ancestry is impossible’) can only be considered as such if it is not susceptible to conjectural amendment; that is, it must be unlikely that the scribe ‘could have restored the correct reading through conjecture or a consultation of another exemplar’: The Critical Editing of Music: History, Method, and Practice (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 78.

31 In bars 28–29 and 60 two passages reaching c♯3 and e3 were not transposed, perhaps because the copyist thought they would be easily transposable by the performer, or simply because of a copying error.

32 For example, see the second movement, bars 14 and 30 in LIMA1.

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35 See, for example, bars 102–104 of the first sonata and bar 94 of the second.

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41 This kind of mistake, very common in the process of copying manuscripts, is usually known as dittography: that is, an unintended repetition of a letter, syllable, word or phrase. See among others Grier, The Critical Editing of Music, 85.

42 It is worth noting that the authors of the music catalogue of the Franciscan convent arrived at this same conclusion. The most recent and complete study of Zipoli can be found in Illari, Bernardo, Domenico Zipoli: para una genealogía de la música clásica latinoamericana (Havana: Fondo Editorial Casa de las Américas, 2011)Google Scholar.

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45 About this composer see Alemán, Fernando J. Cabañas, ‘Misón, Luis’, in Diccionario de la música española e hispanoamericana, ed. Casares, Emilio (Madrid: SGAE, 2000), volume 7, 617–618Google Scholar.

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47 Since Echecopar did not identify this concordance, his transcription of the ‘Marcha de Nápoles’ lacks musical sense in several parts.

48 Compare the ‘minuete’ in F major included in the ‘Libro de zifra’ (second section of the manuscript, no foliation) with de Murcia, Santiago, Saldívar Codex No. 4, facsimile edition with an Introduction by Lorimer, Michael (Santa Barbara, 1987), f. 83Google Scholar.

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