The organ at Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Photo by Eduardo Trópia.
Websites
The Mariana Organ http://www.orgaodase.com.br/en/?page_id=9
PAMM (Patrimônio Archivistístico-Musical Mineiro): website in Portuguese and English on colonial music in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais http://www.cultura.mg.gov.br/pamm/site.html
Moravian Music Foundation http://moravianmusic.org/
National Park Service website on the Moravian settlement in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania http://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/59bethlehem/59bethlehem.htm
Website on the Moravian organ builder David Tannenberg http://www.davidtannenberg.com/
Recordings
Example 11.1: Rameau, Les Sauvages, William Christie, harpsichord, on Youtube
Example 11.2: "Negro Spirituals au Brésil Baroque," XVIII-21 Musique des Lumières, cond. Jean-Christophe Frisch; includes Manoel Dias de Oliveira's Magnificat. This Magnificat is also available on Youtube
Example 11.3: "Lost Music of Early America: Music of the Moravians," Boston Baroque, cond. Martin Pearlman; includes Johann Friedrich Peter's Ich will dir ein Freudenopfer thun
See also "Audio and Video Recordings to Accompany Anthology" (click at left)
Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Readings
Brofsky, Howard. “Rameau and the Indians: The Popularity of Les Sauvages,” Music in the Classic Period: Essays in Honor of Barry S. Brook, ed. Allan W. Atlas (New York: Pendragon, 1985), 43–60 Worldcat
Budasz, Rogério. "Opera and Musical Theater in Eighteenth-Century Brazil: A Survey of Early Studies and New Sources," in Studi musicali 35 (2006), 213–53 academia.edu
Budasz, Rogério. “Black Guitar-Players and Early African-Iberian Music in Portugal and Brazil,” Early Music 35 (2007), 3–21 http://em.oxfordjournals.org/content/35/1/3.abstract academia.edu
Burnard, Trevor. Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004) Worldcat
Crews, C. Daniel. Johann Friedrich Peter and His Times (Winston-Salem, NC: Moravian Music Foundation, 1990) Worldcat
The Cathedral of Mexico City, built on the site of an Aztec temple; Ignacio de Jerusalem worked here
Curcio-Nagy, Linda A. The Great Festivals of Colonial Mexico City: Performing Power and Identity (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004) Worldcat
Eyerly, Sarah. “Singing from the Heart: The Musical Utopias of the Moravian Church.” Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Newsletter, No. 6 (April 2005), 1, 12 http://www.secm.org/newsletter/volume6.pdf
Hall, Douglas. In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750–86, (London: Macmillan, 1989) Worldcat
Jez, Tomasz. "Jesuit Musicians from Baroque Silesia as Missionaries and Music Educators in South America," available on Academia.edu
Knouse, Nola Reed and C. Daniel Crews, Moravian Music: An Introduction (Winston-Salem, NC, 1996) Worldcat
David Tannenberg built this organ for the Moravian church in Salem, North Carolina in 1800
Music and Urban Society in Colonial Latin America, ed. Geoffrey Baker and Tess Knighton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011) Worldcat
The Music of the Moravian Church in America, ed. Nola Reed Knouse (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2008) Worldcat
Ramos-Kittrell, Jesús A. Playing in the Cathedral: Music, Race, and Status in New Spain (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016) Worldcat
Russell, Craig H. “The Splendor of Mexican Matins: Sonority and Structure in Jerusalem’s Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe,” Colloquium Journal (Institute of Sacred Music), vol. 4 (Fall 2007) http://www.yale.edu/ism/colloq_journal/vol4/russell1.html
Russell, Craig H. From Serra to Sancho: Music and Pageantry in the California Missions (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) Worldcat
Smither, Howard E. A History of the Oratorio, vol. 3: The Oratorio in the Classical Era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987) Worldcat
The Bell House in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, built by the Moravians in the 1740s, shortly after their arrival from Germany
Study Guide
Names, titles, and terms introduced in chapter 11
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Les sauvages
Minas Gerais
Ouro Preto
Arp Schnitger
irmandades
Manoel Dias de Oliveira
Magnificat
Coliseo
Ignacio de Jersusalem
Thomas Thistlewood
Samuel Felsted
Jonah
Unitas Fratrum
Singstunde
Johann Friedrich Peter
Liebesmahl
Ich will dir ein Freudenopfer thun