Abstract

Music is very significant as part of the Amerindian cultural universe. Since the arrival of Europeans in America, was described by travelers, colonizers and missionaries. Sound events in the Jesuit missions, however, are usually understood as a vehicle to the oncoming civilization of the Indians. Were, though, extremely important in the approach, communication and translation between indigenous and Jesuits. This article is about this contact through music in seventeenth-century Portuguese Amazon, analyzed by published and unpublished Ignatian documents.

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