Forging Repertories

In this book, author Drew Edward Davies explores musical works from colonial Mexico as complex artifacts of religious culture. Reframing past understanding of New Spanish music, he explores how European aesthetics and local circumstances formed a New Spanish musical repertory differentiated by topicality rather than style, in addition to how that repertory is revived today.

Drew Edward Davies, Professor of musicology at Northwestern University, specializes in early modern church music from New Spain and Mediterranean Europe. He serves as Academic Coordinator of the Seminario de música en la Nueva España y el México Independiente in Mexico City and President of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music (2021-2025). Among his publications are critical editions of Manuel de Sumaya, Santiago Billoni, and Ignacio Jerusalem.

- CHAPTER 1: Approaching Cathedral Music from New Spain
- CHAPTER 2: The Black Reveler in Christmas Villancicos
- CHAPTER 3: Making and Composing Cathedral Music
- CHAPTER 4: The Miraculous School of St. Peter
- CHAPTER 5: Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe, from the Empyrean to Mexico
- CHAPTER 6: Imagining Latin America through Performance