Dear Leonard The oldest known mass from New Spain is from late 16th century. The newest, well, from the 19th.
Cheers eloy Sent from my iPhone On 20/06/2013, at 17:23, Leonard Williams <arc...@verizon.net> wrote: > Was there not a baroque Mass composed in Mexico City? That might indicate > a level of musicality in Old Mexico that would attract a lute. > > Regards, > Leonard Williams > > On 6/19/13 8:09 PM, "Eloy Cruz" <eloyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear Brad, List >> >> If Mexico is part of North America, yes. In the sacristy of the Mex-City >> cathedral, in churches of towns like Nurio and Cocucho in the State of >> Michoacan, in the town of Tlacochahuaya (? I'm not sure this is the town's >> name) and in several poems. I think there's even mention of a tiorba, in >> poetry, but I don't have it with me. >> >> >> Grettings >> >> eloy >> >> >> El 6/19/13 10:53 PM, "Bruno Fournier" <br...@estavel.org> escribió: >> >>> Hi Brad, >>> >>> A >>> >>> Robert Derome from University of Quebec has done quiteA a bit of >>> research on the lute in New France ( Quebec) in the 17th century.A >>> you >>> might want to contact him.A I don't know if he's on this list. >>> >>> A >>> >>> Here is the webiste on Lute in New France: >>> >>> A >>> >>> sorry its in French. >>> >>> A >>> >>> [1]http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r14310/Luth/Frontispice.html >>> >>> A >>> >>> I believe that the Sieur De Maisonneuve played lute.A Also the Sieur >>> Duluth, who was a french soldier and explorer, is accounted to have >>> played lute, hence his surname.A His name would have been given to >>> Duluth Minnesota... maybe Ed Martin can comment on that.. >>> >>> A >>> >>> [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Greysolon,_Sieur_du_Lhut >>> >>> A >>> >>> A >>> >>> Bruno >>> >>> from Montreal >>> >>> A >>> >>> A >>> >>> 2013/6/19 Brad Walton <[3]gtung.wal...@utoronto.ca> >>> >>> Hello lute folks! >>> Does anyone know of any records -- references in literature, >>> letters, diaries, whatever, or depictions in paintings or prints -- >>> of lutes being played in North America during the 17th and/or 18th >>> centuries? >>> Thanks, >>> Brad >>> To get on or off this list see list information at >>> [4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>> >>> -- >>> >>> A >>> >>> Bruno Cognyl-Fournier >>> >>> A >>> >>> [5]www.estavel.org >>> >>> A >>> >>> -- >>> >>> References >>> >>> 1. http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r14310/Luth/Frontispice.html >>> 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Greysolon,_Sieur_du_Lhut >>> 3. mailto:gtung.wal...@utoronto.ca >>> 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>> 5. http://www.estavel.org/ >>> >> >> >> >> > > > >
