Latin American Baroque

Indigenous Modernities and the Performance of the Music of Bolivian Mission Archives the Ensamble Moxos

“…More recently the term "Latin American Baroque" has gained currency; for example, it is used by the French journalist Alain Pacquier, who created the record label K617 Le Chemins du Baroque (K617 The Pathways of Baroque), which specializes in this repertoire. This term has also been used by scholars such as Geoff Baker (2008) and David Irving (2011) and by ensembles like Florilegium, which has recorded three volumes of this repertoire with the title "Bolivian Baroque". For some Latin American scholars such as Carlos Páramo (2009) the term Latin American Baroque can be "more precise (and less ideologically conditioned)" (2009 paragraph 7) than the term Música Colonial.…”

“…Similar to the medieval repertoire, the music of Colonial Latin America lacks performance practice documentation, so performers have looked to living traditions to inform their performance of these repertoires. Irving (2011) identified three distinct approaches to the performance of the repertoire composed in colonial Latin America by European and North American ensembles. The first approach is to conform to conventional European baroque music practices, modeled mostly on Spanish and Italian practices.…”