Audio Examples
The recording Cantando en la Ciudad de los Ángeles: Christmas Villancicos by Gaspar Fernández in Viceregal Mexico (Outhere, 2026), featuring La Boz Galana and Concerto Scirocco under the artistic direction of Sebastián León, was created as a musical companion to Ireri E. Chávez Bárcenas’ book Sounding Race, Identity, and Devotion in Puebla de los Ángeles. It includes a selection of villancicos based on the author’s transcriptions of the Cancionero de Gaspar Fernández (Archivo Histórico de la Arquidiócesis de Antequera Oaxaca, México; henceforth, CGF, AHAAO).
Note: Audio files coming soon. Track list will be organized by chapter.
Chapter 2
Example 2.1. Gaspar Fernández, “Andrana María,” villancico en vizcaíno a 4 (1611), mm. 1–24.
Note: Transcribed from CGF, AHAAO, fols. 84v–85r. Notated in high clefs in the manuscript. The example is transposed down a fourth.
Example 2.2. Gaspar Fernández, “Andrana María,” villancico en vizcaíno a 4 (1611), reconstruction of copla 4.
Note: Reconstruction of coplas based on CGF, AHAAO, fols. 84v–85r.
Example 2.3. Gaspar Fernández, “O minino que Deus es,” villancico en portugués a 4 (1611), mm. 7–29.
Note: Transcribed from CGF, AHAAO, fols. 81v–82r. Notated in high clefs in the manuscript. The example is transposed down a fourth.
Example 2.4. Gaspar Fernández, “O minino que Deus es,” villancico en portugués a 4 (1611), mm. 32–44.
Note: CGF, AHAAO, fols. 81v–82r. Notated in high clefs in the manuscript. The example is transposed down a fourth.
Example 2.5. Gaspar Fernández, “O minino que Deus es,” villancico en portugués a 4 (1611), mm. 119–60.
Note: Transcribed from CGF, AHAAO, fols. 81v–82r. Notated in high clefs in the manuscript. The example is transposed down a fourth.
Example 2.6. Gaspar Fernández, “Ximoyolali, siñola,” villancico en indio a 5 (1611), mm. 20–42.
Note: Transcribed from CGF, AHAAO, fols. 99v–100r. Notated in high clefs in the manuscript. The example is transposed down a fourth.
Chapter 3
Epigraph to Chapter 3. Gaspar Fernández, “Andrés, ¿dó queda el ganado?” villancico en guineo a 6, SSAATB (1610), mm. 16-41.
Note: Transcribed from CGF, AHAAO, fols. 46v–47r. Notated in high clefs in the manuscript. The example is transposed down a fourth.
Example 3.3. Gaspar Fernández, “No aya más, dulçe alegría,” villancico a 3 (1610), mm. 41–61.
Note: Transcribed from CGF, AHAAO, fols. 57v–58r. Notated in high clefs in the manuscript. The example is transposed down a fourth.
Example 3.4. Gaspar Fernández, “Ven y verás, zagalejo,” ensalada de Navidad a 4 (1613), mm. 1–38.
Note: Transcribed from CGF, AHAAO, fols. 138v–140r. Notated in high clefs in the manuscript. The example is transposed down a fourth.
Example 3.5. Gaspar Fernández, “Ven y verás, zagalejo,” ensalada de Navidad a 4 (1613), mm. 9–15 from the estribillo and mm. 52–75 from the copla.
Note: Transcribed from CGF, AHAAO, fols. 138v–140r. Notated in high clefs in the manuscript. The example is transposed down a fourth.
Example 3.6. Gaspar Fernández, “Ven y verás, zagalejo,” ensalada de Navidad a 4 (1613), mm. 76–88.
Note: Transcribed from CGF, AHAAO, fols. 138v–140r.
Example 3.7. Gaspar Fernández, “Ven y verás, zagalejo,” ensalada de Navidad a 4 (1613), mm. 105–28.
Note: Transcribed from CGF, AHAAO, fols. 138v–140r. Notated in high clefs in the manuscript. The example is transposed down a fourth.
Example 3.8. Gaspar Fernández, “Ven y verás, zagalejo,” ensalada de Navidad a 4 (1613), mm. 192–211.
Note: Transcribed from CGF, AHAAO, fols. 138v–140r. Notated in high clefs in the manuscript. The example is transposed down a fourth.
Chapter 4
Example 4.1. Gaspar Fernández, “Xicochi, xicochi, conetzintle” villancico en indio a 4 (1614), mm. 1–21.
Note: Transcribed from CGF, AHAAO, fols. 217v–218r. Notated in high clefs in the manuscript. The example is transposed down a fourth.
Example 4.2. Gaspar Fernández, “Duerme, niño, descansa,” villancico a 4 (1611), mm. 1–18.
Note: Transcribed from CGF, AHAAO, fols. 90v–91r. Notated in high clefs in the manuscript. The example is transposed down a fourth.
Example 4.3. Gaspar Fernández, “Jesós de mi goraçón,” villancico en mestizo e indio a 5 (1610), mm. 1–34.
Note: Transcribed from CGF, AHAAO, fols. 58v–59r. Tello’s catalogue provides the incipit “Tleycantimo choquiliya,” which correspond to the second part of the estribillo. Notated in high clefs in the manuscript. The example is not transposed down a fourth.
Chapter 5
Example 5.1 Gaspar Fernández, “Venimo con glan contento,” villancico en guineo a 8 (1609), mm. 43–59.
Note: Transcribed from CGF, AHAAO, fols. 5v–6r. Notated in standard clefs in the manuscript.
Example 5.2. Gaspar Fernández, “Dame albriçia, mano Antón,” villancico en negrito a 4 (1611), mm. 1–43. Notated in standard clefs in the manuscript.
Note: Transcribed from CGF, AHAAO, fols.100v-101r.
Example 5.3. Gaspar Fernández, “Negriño, tiray-vos là” villancico de los Reyes a 5 (1609), mm. 1–13.
Note: Transcribed from CGF, AHAAO, fols. 11v–12r. Notated in high clefs in the manuscript. The example is transposed down a fourth.
Example 5.4. Gaspar Fernández, “Negriño, tiray-vos là” villancico de los Reyes a 5 (1609), mm. 37–48.
Note: Transcribed from CGF, AHAAO, fols. 11v–12r. Notated in high clefs in the manuscript. The example is transposed down a fourth.
Example 5.5. Gaspar Fernández, “Negriño, tiray-vos là” villancico de los Reyes a 5 (1609), mm. 57–62.
Note: Transcribed from CGF, AHAAO, fols. 11v–12r. Notated in high clefs in the manuscript. The example is transposed down a fourth.
Example 5.6. Gaspar Fernández, “Negriño, tiray-vos là” villancico de los Reyes a 5 (1609), mm. 65–79.
Note: Transcribed from CGF, AHAAO, fols. 11v–12r. Notated in high clefs in the manuscript. The example is transposed down a fourth.
Example 5.7. Gaspar Fernández, “No baya Belén, Angola,” villancico en guineo a 4 (1611), mm. 1–24.
Note: Transcribed from CGF, AHAAO, fols. 83v–84r. Notated in high clefs in the manuscript. The example is transposed down a fourth.
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