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Title Mexican choir books 1600?-1799?

Creator Catholic Church

Date Created 1600-1799

Place Mexico--Mexico City

Language Latin

Subjects Catholic Church, Church music, Polychoral music, Sacred vocal music, Service books (Music)

Description Known as the "Mexican choirbooks," and the "Newberry choirbooks;" cf. New Grove 10:849; E.A. Schleifer, "New light on the Mexican choirbooks at the Newberry Library," Notes 30 (December 1973):231-241; and notes by E.A. Arias, "Mexican colonial musical sources at the Newberry Library" in the Special Collections Info File.
Music arranged on 5-line staves, with round notation in brown ink; some large initial capitals in red.
Front cover of v. 1 bears title: "Este libro de mi[s]as es de este conbento de nuestra seño[r]a de la encarnasion"; leaf [1] is a full-page watercolor drawing of the Agnus Dei in red, blue, green, brown, and gray.
Other volumes with titles include v. 2: De las lamentasiones del juebes y viernes s[an]to; v. 3: Coro de la Salbe y Salmos de ocho de do[n] J[ua]no Lieñas; and v. 4: Tabla de las obras de este libro de salmos, himnos, magnificas, missas, i otros oficios.
Vol. 1 bound in crinkled limp parchment; v. 2-6 bound in later leather over boards, with gold-stamped ornamental concentric frames, and ornamented center panel; red and black leather spine labels with title "Antiphons and hymns;" brass clasps; edges stained red; covers of v. 4-6 lined with 18th-century proof pages of religious books printed by Joseph Bernard de Hegal in Mexico City.
Vol. 1 in clamshell box; v. 2-6 in phase boxes.
Additional information, including a detailed list of the Lienas compositions in the choir books, in Special Collections Info File; cf. also The Mexican choirbooks at the Newberry Library : (Case MS VM 2147 C36) / by Eliyahu Arieh Schleifer, 1979.

Summary Ms. scores of liturgical music--antiphons, masses, requiems, lamentations, passions, and offices--transcribed by at least 20 different scribes for use by the nuns of the Convento de la Encarnación in Mexico City, probably between 1600 and 1799. The scores contain the sacred music of Spanish masters such as Guerrero, Morales, and Victoria; as well as Mexican composers of the late 16th-early 18th centuries such as Franco, Lienas, Ximeno, and Zumaya. Scores of v. 1 and 4 are written in the older style; while v. 2-3 and 5-6 include polychoral works in the "stile concitato." Layout suggests that there were once 2 other v. in the set (cf. Schleifer).

Extent 6 v. ([113]; [130]; [140]; [3], [101]; [169]; [154] leaves) ; 41 cm

Format Early works, Manuscripts

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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Contributing Institution Newberry Library

Projects Tag Music Digital Collection

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Call Number Case MS 5148 Volume 1

BibID 991682658805867

IIIF Resource Type Manifest

IIIF Resource ID https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8Z82PMQCK

Original File Name 991682658805867_case_ms_5148_vol_01

Unique identifier NL12O1EU

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