[Mexican choir books], [between 1600 and 1799?] | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Genre:Early works

Physical Description:6 volumes ([113]; [130]; [140]; [3], [101]; [169]; [154] leaves) ; 41 cm

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:45358915

Notes:

Known as the "Mexican choirbooks," and the "Newberry choirbooks;" cf. New Grove 10:849; E.A. Schleifer, "New light on the Mexican choirbooks at the Newberry Library, " Notes 30 (December 1973):231-241; and notes by E.A. Arias, "Mexican colonial musical sources at the Newberry Library" in the Special Collections Info File

Music arranged on 5-line staves, with round notation in brown ink; some large initial capitals in red

Front cover of v. 1 bears title: "Este libro de mi[s]as es de este conbento de nuestra seño[r]a de la encarnasion"; leaf [1] is a full-page watercolor drawing of the Agnus Dei in red, blue, green, brown, and gray

Other volumes with titles include v. 2: De las lamentasiones del juebes y viernes s[an]to; v. 3: Coro de la Salbe y Salmos de ocho de do[n] J[ua]no Lieñas; and v. 4: Tabla de las obras de este libro de salmos, himnos, magnificas, missas, i otros oficios

Vol. 1 bound in crinkled limp parchment; v. 2-6 bound in later leather over boards, with gold-stamped ornamental concentric frames, and ornamented center panel; red and black leather spine labels with title "Antiphons and hymns;" brass clasps; edges stained red; covers of v. 4-6 lined with 18th-century proof pages of religious books printed by Joseph Bernard de Hegal in Mexico City

Vol. 1 in clamshell box; v. 2-6 in phase boxes

Formerly known as Newberry Library. Manuscript. Case MS VM2147.C36

Additional information, including a detailed list of the Lienas compositions in the choir books, in Special Collections Info File; for other notes on the specific contents of the choir books, cf. The Mexican choirbooks at the Newberry Library : (Case MS VM 2147 C36) / Eliyahu Arieh Schleifer, 1979 [Ph. D. thesis--U. of Chicago]

Language Notes:Words in Latin