Music in Aztec and Inca Territory / Robert Stevenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevenson, Robert, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 p.) : 1 frontisp.

Edition:

Reprint 2019

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1976]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

Contents:

Music in Aztec and Inca Territory

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

PART 1. THE AZTEC AREA

1. THE CHALLENGE OF AZTEC MUSIC

2. AZTEC MUSIC AT CONTACT: A SURVEY OF EXISTING LITERATURE

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 GOMARA (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 ( = CIUDAD 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

3. ACCULTURATION: THE COLONIAL PHASE

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

1. INSTRUMENTS USED BY THE INCAS AND THEIR PREDECESSORS

antaras

pincollos (= pincullus) and quenaquenas

qquepas

DICTIONARY NAMES FOR INSTRUMENTS

LITERARY ALLUSIONS

2. MUSIC TEACHING IN THE INCA AREA: BEFORE AND AFTER THE CONQUEST

MISSIONARY METHODS AND REPERTORY

SECULAR MUSICIANS OF THE CONQUEST EPOCH

3. PERUVIAN "FOLK MUSIC," 1500-1790: LITERARY AND MUSICAL SOURCES FOR A FRESH STUDY

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 MARTINEZ COMPAÑÓN (1737-1797)

LATE COLONIAL "SOCIETY" DANCE MUSIC

BOLIVIAN INDIAN MUSIC

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520317239

0520317238

OCLC:

1153449976