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Immaculate sounds : the musical lives of nuns in New Spain
- Title
- Immaculate sounds : the musical lives of nuns in New Spain / Cesar D. Favila.
- Author
- Favila, Cesar
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
- ©2023
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- Description
- xxv, 333 pages : illustrations (black and white), music; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "It was mid-December 1610 in Mexico City. The Church was in its preparatory season of Advent, leading up to the celebration of Christ's birth at Christmas. The nuns of the Encarnacion convent had just celebrated the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, on 8 December. But now, in this time usually filled with joy, some of the nuns were nervous. Their choirbooks were missing. Without them, the nuns would not be able to celebrate the anniversary of Christ's birth adequately. A musician priest of the metropolitan cathedral, located just three blocks from the convent, had caused the nuns' alarm: Antonio Rodríguez Mata (d. 1643) had all five of the missing books. He had borrowed them from Sister Flor de Santa Clara, the convent "vicaria de coro" (choir vicar) but had failed to return them despite the convent's repeated requests. The diocesan vicar general and the attorney general were summoned. The nuns of the Encarnación demanded that Mata be imprisoned if he failed to return the books immediately following the denunciation. The threat of jail time was serious, but so too was the alleged offense: Mata was impeding the nuns from performing their liturgical music for Christmas"--
- Series Statement
- Currents in Latin American and Iberian music
- Uniform Title
- Currents in Latin American & Iberian music.
- Subject
- Conceptionists > History
- Conceptionists
- 1600-1799
- Music in convents > Mexico > History > 17th century
- Music in convents > Mexico > History > 18th century
- Music in convents > New Spain
- Church music > Mexico
- Church music > Catholic Church > 17th century
- Church music > Catholic Church > 18th century
- Nuns as musicians > Mexico > History
- Church music
- Church music > Catholic Church
- Music in convents
- Nuns as musicians
- Mexico
- New Spain
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : Veil and Voice -- Part I. Acousmatic Discipline. Immaculate Conflicts : Resounding Mary's Immaculate Conception, or Who Was Sister Flor de Santa Clara? ; Sonic Thresholds : The Grates of the Cloister and the Lips of Nuns, or Who Was Sister Rosa? ; Disciplined Sounds : Dowry Waivers and Race, or Who Was Sister Mariana Josefa de Señor San Ignacio? -- Part II. Unity. Feasting Sounds : The Eucharistic Honeymoon, or Who Was Sister Paula? ; Redeeming Sounds : Resounding the Passion of Christ and His Spiritual Brides, or Who Was Sister Marina de San Francisco? -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- JME 23-545
- ISBN
- 9780197621899
- 0197621899
- 9780197621912 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023024934
- OCLC
- 1381313144
- Author
- Favila, Cesar, author.
- Title
- Immaculate sounds : the musical lives of nuns in New Spain / Cesar D. Favila.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Currents in Latin American and Iberian musicCurrents in Latin American & Iberian music.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1600-1799
- Other Form:
- Online version: Favila, Cesar. Immaculate sounds New York : Oxford University Press 2024, 2023 9780197621912 (DLC) 2023024935
- Research Call Number
- JME 23-545