History of Iberian and Latin American Music
Code
711021030
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências Musicais
Credits
6
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
The goal of the present course is to provide the student with na overview of musical practices in Latin America, from the beginning of the Iberian colonization to the successive national independencies of the early 19th century. The course will be particularly focused on the dynamics of acculturation, the application of Peninsular models to colonial societies, the local reprocessing of those models and the process of incorporation of such transformations in the colonizer´s original matrix.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. Similarities and differences between the cultural models in the Portuguese and Spanish processes of
colonization in Latin America.
2. The Peninsular matrix (chapel, chapelmaster, organist, instrument players, cloister school) and the colonial reality (music and missionary intervention, Amerindian choirs, intercultural processes).
3. The Viceroyalties of New Spain, Peru, New Granada and La Plata. The Spanish musical model applied to the ancient PreColombian empires.
4. Music in Brazil, from the coastal captaincies to the colonial inland penetration. The Brazilian musical
processes: the roles of the Crown, the Church and civil society.
5. The \"Jesuit Republic\": music in the theocratic socierty of the missions.
Bibliography
Béhague, G. (1979). Music in Latin America: An Introduction. Englewood-Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Nery, R. V. (2004). Spain, Portugal and Latin America. Buelow, G. A History of Baroque Music. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Bibliografia específica para cada tópico pode ser encontrada nas duas obras acima recomendadas. / Specific bibliography for each topic can be found in the above-mentioned works.
Teaching method
Topics are presented by the teacher and discussed in class, with a strong emphasis on critical listening of recorded examples of the repertoire covered.
Evaluation method
Students are submitted to a midterm (40% of the final grade) and a final test (60%), both essay-based, with acces to their personal study notes.