A presença de música e músicos portugueses no vice-reinado da Nova Espanha e na província de Guatemala, nos séculos XVI-XVII

Abstract

The following paper is a prepublication, in Portuguese translation, of a chapter now in press in its original language (Spanish). It will be published in the peer-reviewed book Musical Exchanges, 1100-1650: Iberian Connections (Kassel, Reichenberger, 2015), edited by Manuel Pedro Ferreira. 

Acknowledgment of the relevance of the circulation of Portuguese music and musicians to the New World from the sixteenth century onwards contrasts with the shortage of publications concerning this theme based on Hispano-American historical sources. Beginning with a review of musical sources and archives of church documents in Guatemala and Mexico, this article aims to examine, though not exhaustively, the presence of Portuguese musicians and the spread of Portuguese music in the viceroyalty of New Spain and the province of Guatemala, particularly in the cities of Puebla de los Ángeles and Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.