La música de salón en el Zacatecas decimonónico

Abstract

In Mexico, in the first half of the 19th century, the aspiration to create a different music, independent of the one that had been cultivated in previous centuries, still fails to propose or implement a new musical aesthetic that erases the traces of the European, but rather, stagnates in a parenthesis with hardly any original creations of its own, composers and performers import foreign works or take inspiration from existing styles and works, resulting in easy, superficial scores, in demand for the consumption of a bourgeois public that will impose a trivial taste, destined only to the learning of an instrument or to simple social entertainment, as can be seen in the compositions of the so-called "salon music". It wasn't until the last decades of the 19th century that a Mexican musical idiosyncrasy emerged, expressed in the work, of greater quality and merit, of outstanding national masters. In this process, Zacatecas was not left out.