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From Serra to Sancho - Music and Pageantry in the California Missions (Paperback)
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From Serra to Sancho - Music and Pageantry in the California Missions (Paperback)
Series: Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
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Music in the California missions was a pluralistic combination of
voices and instruments, of liturgy and spectacle, of styles and
functions - and even of cultures - in a new blend that was
non-existent before the Franciscan friars made their way to
California beginning in 1769. From Serra to Sancho explores the
exquisite sacred music that flourished on the West Coast of the
United States when it was under Spanish and Mexican rule, delving
into the historical, cultural, biographical, and stylistic aspects
of California mission music during the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries. Author Craig H. Russell examines how
mellifluous plainchant, reverent hymns, spunky folkloric ditties,
"classical" music in the style of Haydn, and even Native American
drumming were interwoven into a tapestry of resonant beauty. In
addition to extensive musical and cultural analysis, Russell draws
upon hundreds of primary documents in California, Mexico, Madrid,
Barcelona, London, and Mallorca. It is through the melding together
of this information from geographically separated places that he
brings the mystery of California's mission music into sharper
focus. Russell's groundbreaking study sheds new light on the
cultural exchange that took place in the colonial United States, as
well as on the pervasive worldwide influence of Iberian music as a
whole.
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