The villancico in New Spain 1650-1750 : morphology, significance and development

For almost three centuries, the sacred villancico was the primary vernacular musical form of Spain and its New World colonies. Consisting of a through-composed estribillo, or refrain, and a set of strophic coplas, or verses, these ‘devout and honest songs’ (as they were styled by the Third Mexican P...

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Main Author: Swadley, John
Published: Canterbury Christ Church University 2014
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.704902