The music of the Jesuit missionaries in the Old and New World
(Notes about the concert on 14-15 January)
(Notes about the concert on 14-15 January)
This presents a tour concert sound the stage musical imagination of a Jesuit of the eighteenth century.
production sonatas, concertos and recercares, by then part of the musical practices of European church environments, allows us to recompose the scene aesthetic experienced by many of the Jesuits who were to develop Company missions on American soil.
A case of particular relevance is the organist and harpsichordist Domenico Zipoli, which in Italy had been a disciple of the great Pasquini. This, in turn, shared musical aesthetic and the precepts that were minted in the Roman Arcadia environments, Upper Room in which he participated along with composers such as Arcangelo Corelli and Alessandro Scarlatti.
Such influences are felt in the vocal and instrumental music performed by the Jesuits in the new American concert. Indeed, in these works is easy to recognize the formal matrix of the sonata, cantata concert and Italian. Applications and duties assigned to this code imposed on American soil, without doubt, the use of text adaptation, instrumentation, and even forms. All this was in the missionary context, a tool eloquent, persuasive and "sweet" to achieve what the historian Fernando Mires has been called "the colonization of the souls."
The latter idea is what inspires the title of the concert. It brings together on one stage, that of his own Church of the Counter-echoes and glimpses of the rich European musical life in the memory of the missionaries, and far from their homelands. A double contrast with the message of salvation and prayer set to music is produced by comparing the repertoire Jesuit contemporary forms of music practiced in America but away from the missions, cathedrals and monasteries of the great metropolis of the colony, Lima, Quito, Santa Fe de Bogota, Guatemala and New Spain. But once again sounded, and even harder-fashion echoes and distant Europe: Corelli in Mexico, Ceruti in Peru ...
close this concert with a final twist in the infinite movement of the imagination across geographies and different times, Europe and America, Yesterday and Today: Songs of Father catechetical Havestadt, invented and taught Mapuche land in southern Chile. After the recall (from memory of the missionary melancholy perhaps, to show how new and inventive, do not know ...) and end up scoring in the Jesuit College in Santiago, Chile. Years later, in 1777, would be published in final retreat, back in his native Germany.
This concert program is also a musical tribute to the memory of evangelist and project Jesuit missionary in the colony. This goal stands especially in the presentation of a small part of the work of Father Havestadt, emerging a surprising link with the history of Achao, his home church and the Jesuit tradition chilota mission. This priest made an unprecedented musical "circular Trans mission." In fact, between October 1751 and March 1752, the mission traveled with a portable altar and on mules, more than 600 miles in mountainous areas in Chile and Argentina, between the river Maule and Villarrica volcano, north and south araucana mission of Santa Fe is likely that there has started to mint its project of making a catechism in indigenous languages \u200b\u200bwith European melodies. Noting
in key historical force in the musical traditions of Catholic devotion of the people and the renewed chilote practice of "round missions" under the initiative of the Parish of Achao, perhaps we can move a point in the understanding of the purposes stated this "missionary movement" with his Chilidúgú: "network to get through it souls."
H. Sergio Candia
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