Abstract

TORRES MEDINA, Raúl Heliodoro. The Practice of Sacred Music in Cities and Towns in Central Mexico during the Nineteeth Century. Permanence and Challenges. Estud. hist. mod. contemp. Mex [online]. 2024, n.68, pp.93-122.  Epub Oct 22, 2024. ISSN 0185-2620.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.24485004e.2024.68.77923.

The study of the practice of sacred music in the cities and towns of the viceroyalty of New Spain has been a subject scarcely dealt by musicologists and historians. This void is increased when trying to glimpse what the development of music and its performers became during the nineteenth century, after the independence. This article presents data related to some important aspects of the musical exercise of the time within the temples. The research finds, after the period of emancipation, a continuity in the practice of sacred music, patent both in the books of office and dating of the brotherhoods as in other documents. It also identifies, after the Reform Laws, a series of ecclesiastical provisions that attempted to remove from the sacred halls theatrical and profane music, as well as the participation of women in singing. Through documents from the parish archives and printed sources of the time, the purpose is to show some lines of development that are important to understand religious musical life in nineteenth-century society.

Keywords : musicians; church; brotherhoods; stipends; theatrical music; prohibitions.

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