Alejandro VeraPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile | UC · Instituto de Música
Alejandro Vera
Doctor of Philosophy
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Associate Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and Chief Editor of Resonancias (resonancias.uc.cl). He is the author of The Sweet Penance of Music. Musical Life in Colonial Santiago de Chile (Oxford University Press, 2020). His most recent distinctions are the “Casa de las Américas” Musicological Award (2018), "Lothar Siemens" Award from the Spanish Musicological Society (2021), and the Robert Stevenson Award by the American Musicological Society (2022).
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In recent years, the number of publications aimed at reflecting on the impact that new technologies have on the music field has grown. One of the most famous and interesting –although controversial– is the book Retromania by Simon Reynolds (2012). In this work, the author argues that “YouTube's gigantic collective archive” has caused unprecedented...
Pese al incremento de las últimas décadas en nuestro conocimiento de la música virreinal, quedan importantes vacíos en relación con ciertos períodos y lugares. De todos ellos, Lima es quizá el más llamativo, porque, pese a tratarse de una sede virreinal, sabemos relativamente poco sobre su vida musical. Este vacío, sin embargo, es aún más marcado c...
Grupo de Estudio IMS: Música antigua y el Nuevo Mundo. Modera: Egberto Bermúdez / Egberto Bermúdez. Una vez más: instrumentos musicales en las misiones y reducciones jesuitas en América en el siglo XVIII / Alejandro Vera. Música española en Lima a finales del siglo XVII: un cargamento naviero y su contexto / Javier Marín-López. Insurgencia y música...
Los cantorales de la Catedral de Lima estudia, por primera vez, la colección de libros de coro de la Catedral Metropolitana de Lima, que está formada por cuarenta volúmenes manuscritos copiados en su mayor parte en el siglo XVII. En el estudio inicial, se aborda su historia, confección y escribas responsables. Seguidamente, se indaga sobre su forma...
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La circulación de la música española en la América colonial ha sido abordada en diversas publicaciones, desde los trabajos clásicos de Stevenson hasta estudios más recientes. Sin embargo, para el caso del virreinato del Perú, y especialmente de Lima, los datos conocidos se limitan al siglo XVIII, mientras que el XVII permanece en una oscu...
El presente artículo pretende contribuir al conocimiento sobre las relaciones entre música y poesía en la España del siglo XVII, mediante el estudio de un caso en concreto. Se trata de una pieza anónima conservada en el Libro de tonos humanos (1656) y cuyo texto pertenece a Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza. Si bien esta obra ha sido analizada en estudios...
This book provides a fresh, comprehensive view of the musical life and its cultural context in Santiago, Chile, from its foundation in 1541 to the end of the colonial period, roughly in 1810. Combining the study of archival documents, secondary sources, and music scores, it deals with different aspects of musical life in the cathedral (Chapter 1),...
Este libro ofrece una visión amplia y comprensiva de la vida musical y su contexto cultural en la ciudad de Santiago de Chile, desde su fundación en 1541 hasta las postrimerías del período colonial, en torno a 1810. A partir de bibliografía tanto clásica como actual, documentos de archivo y partituras de la época, y mediante la combinación del anál...
The present article studies what appears to be a “defect” that arises from the comparison between the music of José de Campderrós - a Catalan composer active in Chile around 1800- and the “great classics” of his time. As explained in the Introduction, such “defect” is his frequent tendency to include sections with very few modulations or even witho...
ATLANTIC CROSSINGS: MUSIC FROM 1492 THROUGH THE LONG 18TH CENTURY CENTER FOR EARLY MUSIC STUDIES, BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 7–8 JUNE 2019 - Volume 17 Issue 1 - ALEJANDRO VERA
El presente artículo estudia la circulación del libro entre España y el virreinato peruano a finales del siglo XVIII. A partir de una revisión sistemática, efectuada en el fondo Real Aduana del Archivo General de la Nación del Perú, analiza 48 cargamentos con libros que fueron importados de Cádiz al Callao entre 1779 y 1789, con el fin de ser vendi...
This article is divided into two parts. In the first part the importance of the baroque guitar of five courses in colonial Chile is documented mainly in Santiago (the capital) but also in other cities and villages of the country. The data was gathered by the author after several years of systematic work in different archives and collections such as...
This article deals with the circulation of instrumental music between Spain and the New World at the end of the eighteenth century, focusing on Madrid, Mexico City and Lima as main urban centres. By analysing archival documents preserved in these cities, I intend to show that the baroque guitar music composed and copied in Madrid was also intended...
Musical performers and performing processes are relatively new objects of study if we compare them with composers and works, categories that have been at the centre of musicological concerns for a long time: so much so that in a relatively recent publication, An Introduction to Music Studies, ed. J. P. E. Harper-Scott and Jim Samson (Cambridge: Cam...
El presente trabajo busca ampliar el conocimiento actual sobre la circulación musical en el virreinato del Perú por medio de un estudio comparado entre las partituras del período colonial que se han conservado en las catedrales de Lima y Santiago de Chile. De esta forma, se establecen nuevas correspondencias tanto musicales como caligráficas, demos...
El presente trabajo presenta algunas reflexiones surgidas tanto de la catalogación del fondo de música de la catedral de Santiago como de la investigación, en paralelo, sobre la vida musical de esta institución. En primer lugar, se analizan los prejuicios sobre el acto de catalogar en una parte importante de la musicología contemporánea. Luego, se...
El presente trabajo documenta y estudia algunas colecciones de procedencia extranjera que en la actualidad integran el fondo de música de la Catedral de Santiago de Chile. Mediante el trabajo documental y el análisis caligráfico (comparación de copistas), se demuestra que algunas fuentes conservadas llegaron desde Lima, París, Madrid y Roma en dist...
This is the first study about the musical practice in convents of Colonial Chile on the basis of new data collected in the archive of the convent of La Victoria in Santiago. It considers historical and musical aspects such as the image of the nun musician in traditional and postmodern historiography, her social status during the colonial period, th...
This article hypothesizes that the overly negative view of the music of the colonial period in Chile is rooted in the nationalistic ideology of the 19th and 20th centuries, which viewed that period as one of submission to a foreign power. It goes on to suggest that this ideology had a determining role in the creation of the dual image that has been...
This is the first study about the musical practice in convents of Colonial Chile on the basis of new data collected in the archive of the convent of La Victoria in Santiago. It considers historical and musical aspects such as the image of the nun musician in traditional and postmodern historiography, her social status during the colonial period, th...
This article contributes a signifi cant amount of new information about Santiago de Murcia's life, allowing for a fresh appraisal of the signifi cance of his music. It is divided into three sections. The fi rst synthesizes the previous data and conjectures about Murcia and his known sources (a printed book and three manuscripts), taking into consid...
ResumenResumen A partir de la labor investigativa en torno a la música colonial y la necesidad de integrar de una manera más adecuada el aporte vernáculo, este artÃculo considera la cuestión de la práctica y cultura musical indÃgena tanto prehispánica como colonial, desde el caso sur andino en general y chileno en particular. En su primera...
This article considers for the first time the music of the Jesuits in Chile after their expulsion in 1767. It is focused on the music collection preserved at the Church of San Ignacio in Santiago. It contains more than five hundred manuscript and printed sources dated from about 1880 to 1960, which reflect the musical life of this church and the Co...
This article considers for the first time the music of the Jesuits in Chile after their expulsion in 1767. It is focused on the music collection preserved at the Church of San Ignacio in Santiago. It contains more than five hundred manuscript and printed sources dated from about 1880 to 1960, which reflect the musical life of this church and the Co...
This article presents a preliminary study of a new manuscript by the guitarist Santiago de Murcia recently discovered in Chile.
The manuscript is entitled Cifras selectas de guitarra and is dated 1722. Among the c.80 works it contains, whether as single items or grouped together in suites, most are sets of variations on Spanish dances
such as the v...
Early Music 32.3 (2004) 369-382
Several explanations have traditionally been put forward for the scarcity of information about music in Chile during the colonial period: Chile at that time did not have vice-regal status, and therefore its towns did not develop to the same degree as major cities in other areas of South America; in addition, numerous...
El trabajo comienza con un breve examen de la práctica musical en la corte de Felipe IV, centrado en la polifonía profana. Se analizan seguidamente las posibilidades musicales de una institución hasta ahora poco estudiada como el convento del Carmen de Madrid, donde vivieron varios compositores de renombre en la época. Se resumen luego las caracter...
