Reviews for Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco

The average rating for Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-09-27 00:00:00 Alansa Birnadr I read this about 2 years ago. Baker's title is fitting because he is also "imposing" a new musicological point of view concerning music during the colonial period in Cuzco. This way of thought serves as a model for other important centers of music productivity during the colonial period; Mexico City, Puebla, Lima, Oaxaca, Guatemala, etc. He argues that the current musicological view of the Latin American Baroque is one that is cathedral-centric; it focuses on a specific type of sacred music, one more imitative of European style or done purely in Latin. He asks, "And what of the musical activities at the parishes?" This new view is being adopted by musicologists in Spain and England also. Furthermore, Baker may have discovered just how motets in the Aztec and Quechua languages made it to the cathedrals. They most likely originated at parishes surrounding the cathedrals then gradually, evidence of their influence was found at the cathedrals.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-08-30 00:00:00 Mike Bruns A estética e sociologia explicada no detalhe e balanço da própria bossa nova. Um trabalho brilhante que se lê quase com o mesmo prazer com que se ouve a música.