Playing in the Cathedral

Playing in the Cathedral
Author: Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190236817


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This work explores how cathedral musicians in eighteenth-century Mexico City relied on music and on their institutional affiliation to define their social place. In the tensions that brewed within New Spain's racial casta (or caste) system, people of mixed race increasingly competed for Spanish benefits and prerogatives.


Playing in the Cathedral
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This work explores how cathedral musicians in eighteenth-century Mexico City relied on music and on their institutional affiliation to define their social place
Playing in the Cathedral
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Throughout Spanish colonial America, limpieza de sangre (literally, "purity of blood") determined an individual's status within the complex system of social hie
Murder in the Cathedral
Language: en
Pages: 86
Authors: T. S. Eliot
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-25 - Publisher: HarperCollins

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T. S. Eliot's most famous drama, a retelling of the murder of the archbishop of Canterbury Murder in the Cathedral, written for the Canterbury Festival in 1935,
Cathedral
Language: en
Pages: 527
Authors: Ben Hopkins
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-26 - Publisher: Europa Editions

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A sweeping story about obsession, mysticism, art, earthly desire, and the construction of a Cathedral in medieval Germany. At the center of this story is the Ca
Cathedral of the Wild
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Boyd Varty
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-11 - Publisher: Random House

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