Latin American Choral Music:
Contemporary Performance and the Colonial Legacy

Edited by Janet Sturman

with assistance from Alla Generolova, Cathryn Clayton, and Carolyn Donohue

Table of Contents

Introduction: Twenty-first Century Encounters with Latin American Music of the Colonial Era
Janet Sturman

Digging, Gluing, Printing, Playing: Making the Music of Colonial Mexico Come to Life
Craig Russell

Juan Bautista Plaza and the Rescue of Venezuelan Colonial Choral Music
Marie Labonville

The Holy Spirit Mass: A Problem of Authorship in Brazilian Colonial Music
Marshal Gaioso Pinto

Brazilian Colonial Music: A Stylistic Study of Origins and Implications for Performance
Ricardo Bernardes

Nationalism, Exoticism, and Colonialist Appropriation: The Historiographic Decontextualization of Music from New Spain
Drew Edward Davies

An Appraisal of Spanish Colonial Era Music With Nahuatl Texts
David Shaul           

From Manuscript to Performance: The Metepec Villancicos of Antonio de Salazar
Sherrill Blodget

Two Performance Problems from the Mexican Baroque
Francisco Grijalva Vega

Interpretive Choices in Latin American Choral Music
Frederick Moehn

Roundtable Discussion: Issues of Performance and Interpretation of  Latin American Choral Music
Suzanne Tiemstra

Video of the The Arizona Choir's performance of the Misa de Lima by Roque Ceruti at the Tucson Museum of Art, January 20, 2007.

Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus
Benedictus
Agnus Dei

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