Galliarda
The Golden Jewels of Zacateca and Potosi
Music from Seventeenth Century Spain, Mexico and South America
Tamsin Cowell
Supported by a grant from Continuo Foundation
The new world cities of Zacateca in Mexico and Potosi were developed in the sixteenth centuries in the Spanish quest for gold. What was found in far greater quantities in both high-altitude settlements was silver. By the seventeenth-century a fusion of locally composed polyphonic music had entered and altered the church music brought by the Spanish in the early sixteenth century, most notably in the rhythmic addition of villancicos, and its indigenous dance rhythms and poetic forms.
Fri, 11 July 2025
St Johns Arts Centre Harlow
1:00pm
suggested donations £10- ➕1 other performance
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The new world cities of Zacateca in Mexico and Potosi were developed in the sixteenth centuries in the Spanish quest for gold. What was found in far greater quantities in both high-altitude settlements was silver. By the seventeenth-century a fusion of locally composed polyphonic music had entered and altered the church music brought by the Spanish in the early sixteenth century, most notably in the rhythmic addition of villancicos, and its indigenous dance rhythms and poetic forms.
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