Crescendo Music: A Story of Hope in the Voice of the New World

Festive vocal and instrumental music from Colonial Latin America

Voices and instruments bring alive Hispanic Renaissance polyphony from late 16th to early 17th cent. music manuscripts, found in convents of Northwest Guatemala, and vocal and instrumental music from the Peruvian Martinez Comapañón Codex.

The “Latin American mss. Guatemala music manuscripts” are a collection of vocal works of Spanish and Indigenous Renaissance compositions from c. 1570 to 1635 that were used in the villages of Santa Eulalia, San Juan Ixcoi, and San Mateo Ixtatan in the commune of Huehuetenango in northwest Guatemala. Some works were written by native Mayans, …