Memory of the World
American Colonial Music: a sample of its documentary richness
The documentary collections of music from the 16th to the 18th century from different countries of the American continent are an essential part of the cultural history of the New World in all aspectscolumn religious and lay civil and political cultural and popular vocal and instrumental mystic and dramatic renaissance baroque and classic They constitute the testimony of different cultures Indigenous African and European which mixed and gave birth to a new culture not completely western nor Hispanic nor purely American for three centuries
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