AT LEAST FOUR COMPREHENSIVE ARCHIVES Of colonial music survive in the upper Andean nations: two in Peru, one in Bolivia, and one in Colombia. Ruben Vargas Ugarte, director of the Biblioteca Nacional at Lima in 1961, catalogued the music holdings of the Seminario de San Antonio Abad in Cuzco and supervised the cataloguing of the music archive in the archiepiscopal library at Lima (see The Music of Peru, p. 7o, notes 28 and 29). The extensive Sucre Cathedral archive-consisting of 617 tonos antiquisimos when catalogued at the end of the colonial epoch-still houses treasures unsurpassed in any Peruvian cathedral (The Music of Peru, p. 179). These three archives stress the I7th and i8th centuries. Bogota Cathedral, on the other hand, is the only site of the four at which liberal quantities of 16th-century music are to be found. Morales, Francisco Guerrero, and Victoria-the Spanish Renaissance trinity-are well represented. So too are Juan Navarro, master at Avila, Salamanca, Ciudad Rodrigo, and Palencia; Rodrigo de Ceballos, who worked principally at Seville, Cordova, and Granada; Nicolas Zorita, master at Tarragona; Juan Bautista Comes, of Valencia; and Sebastiin Aguilera de Heredia, who worked at Saragossa. Counterparting these giants of I6thand early I7th-century Peninsular art, Gutierre Fernaindez Hidalgo (b. I553) rises as their worthy New World compeer who worked successively at Bogotai, Quito, Cuzco, and Sucre (La Plata). In an essay on Colombian colonial music to be published in The Americas, Fernindez Hidalgo's career in these four centers of colonial culture will be briefly surveyed. His colonial successors in the chapelmastership at Bogoti, Cascante, Herrera, Romero, and Lugo, will also be studied in a new effort to assess the absolute value of Colombian colonial music.
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