This seems like the right moment to mention that Eloy has made a brilliant
CD of music combining baroque sources with son jarocho. It's called
Laberinto en la guitarra : el espiritu barroco del son jarocho. It's on
the Urtext label (which I think is Mexican), maker's number is UMA 2018.
The web site is given as www.urtext.com.mx or www.urtextonline.com.
Monica
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> Dear Thomas and All:
> The Mexican musicologist Eloy Cruz has made an extensive study of the
> musical life of the early Spanish settlers. His theory is that as soon as
> substantial towns were established, the Spanish brought with them many of
> the trappings of Spanish urban life, including musical instruments. He
also
> thinks it likely that instrument makers traveled to the New World fairly
> early on.
> I once asked Alejandro Planchart why there are so few traces of vihuelas
> in Central America and northern South America. One theory is that the
> wholesale destruction that accompanied wars of independence (Venezuela,
for
> example, lost an estimated one-third of its population) took a heavy toll
> on the more fragile trappings of civilization such as music.
> Cheers,
> Jim
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> I'm not sure spaniards of the 16th century considered music as luxury.
They
> must have had a different approach to what luxury is and what is
necessary.
> The question could be: *if* one took a musical instrument with him would
it
> be a vihuela? As far as I understand the vihuela would be rather played by
> the nobility and therefor the number of people who *could* have taken a
> vihuela with them would be very limited. To stress Jon's picture of the
> "Master" -movie: It would rather be recorders, drums in all forms and that
> kind of instruments played by the common sailors and soldiers. But I would
> *not* tell it impossible that the one or the other nobleman took his
> favorite instrument with him which also could have been a vihuela
(although
> I doubt it would be considered practical for life on board).
> BUT: Later, when colonies were established I am rather sure that among the
> first things they imported from spain would have been musical instruments.
> There must have been records surviving telling us about what was ordered
> from the colonies. Did anyone make a research about that?
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> Best wishes
> Thomas
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> > When the Spanish colonized the new world, did they pack light? Would
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> > carried any musical instruments, or were they so militaristic that the
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> > things had no place in the baggage train of the first wave?
> Music is a luxury, and generally the thugs of the first wave are unlikely
> to
> have time for such a leisurely pursuit.
> RT
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