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. This book explores the exquisite sacred music that
flourished on the West Coast of America when it was under Spanish
and Mexican rule; it delves into the historical, cultural,
biographical, and stylistic aspects of California mission music
during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The book
explores 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. Aspects of music terminology, performance
practice, notation, theory, sacred song, hymns, the sequence, the
mass, and pageantry are addressed. Russell draws upon hundreds of
primary documents in California, Mexico, Madrid, Barcelona, London,
and Mallorca, and 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. In
addition to extensive musical analysis, the book also examines such
things as cultural context, style, scribal attribution,
instructions to musicians, government questionnaires, invoices, the
liturgy, architectural space where performances took place,
spectacle, musical instruments, instrument construction, shipping
records, travelers' accounts, letters, diaries, passenger lists,
baptismal and burial records, and other primary source material.
Within this book one finds considerablebiographical information
about Junipero Serra, Juan Bautista Sancho, Narciso Duran,
Florencio Ibanez, Pedro Cabot, Martin de Cruzelaegui, Ignacio de
Jerusalem, and Francisco Javier Garcia Fajer. Furthermore, it
contains five far-reaching appendices: a Catalogue of Mission
Sources; Photos of Missions and Mission Manuscripts (with over 150
color facsimiles); Translations of Primary Texts; Music Editions
(that are performance-ready); and an extensive Bibliography.
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