1. 'Versos and Marches for Processions': Instrumental Music During Ceremonial Translations at Spanish Ecclesiastic Institutions between ca. 1750 and ca. 1830
- Author
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Héctor Eulogio Santos Conde
- Subjects
religious ceremonies ,minstrels ,lcsh:Musical instruction and study ,lcsh:M1-5000 ,lcsh:Music ,media_common.quotation_subject ,versos orquestales ,Art ,ministriles ,instituciones eclesiásticas españolas ,Musicology ,procesiones ,ceremonias religiosas ,processions ,Instrumental music ,marchas ,instrumental music ,Spanish ecclesiastical institutions ,música instrumental ,marches ,Humanities ,Music ,orchestral verses ,lcsh:MT1-960 ,media_common - Abstract
espanolLa integracion de la musica para conjuntos instrumentales en el ceremonial religioso durante el transito del siglo XVIII al XIX es una tematica que ha cobrado cierta relevancia en los ultimos anos en la agenda musicologica espanola e hispanoamericana. En el presente texto se analiza concretamente la inclusion de musica instrumental durante aquellas ceremonias o actos religiosos que, como las procesiones, se caracterizaban por el desplazamiento de comitivas mas o menos numerosas. El analisis de la documentacion administrativa procedente de dieciseis instituciones eclesiasticas espanolas evidencia, por un lado, la pervivencia de los ministriles en estas ceremonias hasta bien entrado el siglo XIX, en su funcion tradicional de alternar con el coro o la capilla de musica, y revela, por otro, la participacion de los conjuntos instrumentales modernos desde ubicaciones fijas, en sustitucion del organo o de los propios ministriles, con el objetivo de solemnizar el movimiento de las procesiones, los celebrantes y/o las autoridades religiosas. Finalmente, algunos repertorios musicales, titulados como versos o marchas, ilustran el tipo de piezas que podian escucharse durante estos eventos. EnglishThe integration of music for instrumental ensembles into religious ceremonies during the transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries is a subject that has gained importance in recent years in Spanish and Spanish-American musicology. This article analyses the inclusion of instrumental music during these ceremonies or religious acts that, like processions, were characterised by the translation of small or large entourages. The analysis of the administrative documentation from sixteen Spanish ecclesiastical institutions shows, on the one hand, the continued existence of minstrels in these ceremonies until well into the nineteenth century, in their traditional role of alternating with the choir or the music chapel. On the other, it reveals the participation of modern instrumental ensembles from fixed locations, replacing the organ or the minstrels themselves, with the objective of solemnising the movement of the processions, the celebrants and/ or the religious authorities. Finally, certain musical repertories, titled versos or marches, illustrate the type of pieces that could be heard during these events.
- Published
- 2020