Language Guides
IPA Guide available in score and recording is available upon purchase of score.
Translation is included in analysis form above
Pronunciation of the letters of the Nahuatl alphabet , Uiversidad Veracruzana (Website)
Nahuatl Grammar of the Townships of Mecayapan and Tatahuicapan de Juárez, Veracruz, Second Edition, Carl Wolgemuth (Grammar Guide - Dissertation)
Context
Early Music and Latin America: Trans-Historical Views on the Coloniality of Sound, Melodie Michel (Dissertation)
The institutionalization of a new “mode” in the LAEMR. (LAEMR = Latin American Early Music Repertoire): pp. 226 - 230
Indian Music to Celebrate Christmas in Moxo Jesuit Reductions Piotr Mawrot (Journal)
Is It Really Just Baroque? An Overview of Latin American Colonial Choral Music, Cristian Grases (Journal)
2. Native Song and Dance Affect in Seventeenth-Century Christian Festivals in New Spain, Ireri E. Chávez Bárcenas
Sacred Music in Colonial Era Hispaniola: The Evangelization of the Taino People, Tito J. Gutierrez (Article)
Singing in the City of Angels: Race, Identity, and Devotion in Early Modern Puebla de Los Ángeles, Ireri Elizabeth Chávez Bárcenas
(Dissertation)
Villancicos en Indio y Mestizo (pp. 109-126) - Includes cultural and text context.
Additional Instrumentation
Goat Hoof Shaker Demonstration (Border CrosSIng) - As indicated in the score, it is meant to mimic the sound of a baby’s rattle. It should be played as follows: ♩𝅗𝅥 | 𝅗𝅥.