The Cathedral of Santiago

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-100
Author(s):  
Alejandro Vera
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Organization Structure ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Relative Scarcity

This chapter deals with musical life in Santiago cathedral during the 16th to 18th centuries. It considers, among other topics, its organization, structure, financing, and the agency of specific people, such as bishops, prebendaries, chapelmasters, and other musicians. It subsequently explains how this information casts light on more musical issues, such as performing practice, particularly during José de Campderrós’s time. The chapter also studies the repertoire, including plainsong and intonations, Latin polyphony, and Spanish pieces (especially villancicos), showing that the relative scarcity of music sources can be related not only to the restricted budget of the institution (especially until 1700) but also to specific features proper to is musical life. Then, it relates the different kinds of music mentioned before to the liturgical context, explaining both some of its similarities and differences with other cathedrals from the New World. As in the rest of the book, this chapter combines the study of historical documents and music sources.

scholarly journals Canadian Music: A Personal Perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-17
Author(s):  
Carl Morey
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Member ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Canadian Music ◽  
Music Centre ◽  
The University ◽  
League Of Composers

In this article the author reflects on musical life in Canada, drawing on experiential perspectives while growing up in Toronto and his career for three decades as a faculty member in musicology at the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto. References to pivotal musical institutions (Canadian League of Composers, CBC, Canadian Music Centre, among others) and historical documents such as Ernest MacMillan’sMusic in Canada,Marshall McLuhan’sGutenberg Galaxy,and George Grant’sLament for a Nationprovide contextual frameworks for these perspectives.

Information Overload in the New World of Work

2009 ◽  
pp. 396-418
Author(s):  
Jeroen ter Heerdt ◽  
Tanya Bondarouk
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
New World ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Subject Domain ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Concise Representation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Similarities And Differences

In this chapter the authors present a revision of the information overload concept elaborated by Eppler and Mengis (2004). The main elements of our approach are literature synopsis and analysis, qualitative semi-structured interviews, and discussion. Their review of the information overload concept is multidisciplinary as we identify similarities and differences among the various management perspectives and refine it with the empirical findings. They hope that by doing so, we can identify synergies between the theoretical conceptualization (Epper and Mengis, 2004), and real-life settings. They present results in a highly compressed, visualized format that allows for a more concise representation of the subject domain, easy comparisons, and hopefully – reduction of information overload. The empirical study was done at the Microsoft B.V. (The Netherlands) where Information workers became the most important type of workers within an organization.

BRINGING WERNER’S TEACHINGS TO THE NEW WORLD: ANDRÉS MANUEL DEL RÍO AND THE CHAIR OF MINERALOGY IN THE SCHOOL OF MINES OF MEXICO (1795–1805)

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-261
Author(s):  
FRANCISCO OMAR ESCAMILLA-GONZÁLEZ ◽  
LUCERO MORELOS-RODRÍGUEZ
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
New World ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Mining Engineering ◽  
Educational Model ◽  
Engineering School ◽  
Del Rio ◽  
Geological Sciences

ABSTRACT Professor Andrés Manuel del Río (1764–1849) taught mineralogy from 1795 to 1846 in the School of Mines of Mexico City. This institution was the first mining engineering school of the New World and it followed closely the educational model of the Freiberg Mining Academy, established in 1765 in Saxony. The geological sciences, in particular, were taught at the School of Mines using Abraham Gottlob Werner’s (1749–1815) teaching method. This article analyzes the first ten years of Del Río’s work by studying the three branches of mineralogy that he taught: orictognosy, geognosy, and the ‘art of mining’. This analysis is based on the textbooks he wrote as well as other primary historical documents, many associated with students, that record the discoveries made by him from 1795 to 1805. This interval is considered to be the first golden period of his academic career during which he wrote textbooks and discovered vanadium.

The Private Sphere and the Music Trade

2020 ◽  
pp. 157-229
Author(s):  
Alejandro Vera
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Musical Practice ◽  
New Information ◽  
Commercial Networks ◽  
The City

This chapter studies the musical life of private houses in the city. Informed by historical documents (namely wills, dowries, inventories, and customs records), music scores, and treatises from the colonial period, it begins by documenting the instruments and books of music that prevailed in the domestic space and its context. Subsequently, it supplies new information about the music trade among individuals from Cádiz, Lima, and Santiago, showing how the elite took advantage of their commercial networks to foster their musical practice. It also revises the role performed by women and the familiar entourage in private musical life, as well as the prevailing genres and styles, highlighting the different ways of performing dances and songs. One of the chapter’s conclusions, indeed, is that the performance—more than the instruments and genres in themselves—acquired increasing importance in social terms during the 18th century, as the enlightened ideas gained more influence in the city.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Alejandro Vera
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
Similarities And Differences

The Introduction posits the theoretical concepts and bibliographical context for the book. Based on testimony from Josefa Soto, a nun who played the harp in the convent of La Victoria from the late eighteenth century onwards, it states that duality was an essential trait of colonial music and culture. Also, it explains some of the similarities and differences with previous studies about music in colonial cities, and reflects on the concepts of “thick narrative” (Burke), history, and microhistory (Ginzburg), among others. It then discusses the cities of Santiago and Lima, showing that the latter was the main referent for the former and that several of Santiaguino musical practices and culture can be better understood in the light of Lima’s influence. The Introduction concludes by describing the primary sources, including both historical documents and music scores found in several archives from Chile and abroad, the limitations of this research, and the acknowledgments.

Orosensory Perception, Speech Production, and Deafness

1973 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milo E. Bishop ◽  
Robert L. Ringel ◽  
Arthur S. House
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Speech Production ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Functional Disorders ◽  
Form Discrimination ◽  
School Subjects ◽  
Oral Form ◽  
Similarities And Differences

The oral form-discrimination abilities of 18 orally educated and oriented deaf high school subjects were determined and compared to those of manually educated and oriented deaf subjects and normal-hearing subjects. The similarities and differences among the responses of the three groups were discussed and then compared to responses elicited from subjects with functional disorders of articulation. In general, the discrimination scores separated the manual deaf from the other two groups, particularly when differences in form shapes were involved in the test. The implications of the results for theories relating orosensory-discrimination abilities are discussed. It is postulated that, while a failure in oroperceptual functioning may lead to disorders of articulation, a failure to use the oral mechanism for speech activities, even in persons with normal orosensory capabilities, may result in poor performance on oroperceptual tasks.

Royalty in the New World

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kinahan Cornwallis
Keyword(s):  
New World
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