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Research in Colonial Mexican Music*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Alfred E. Lemmon*
Affiliation:
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

Abstract

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Inter-American Notes
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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1979

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Footnotes

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I would like to thank Dr. Robert E. Preston and Dr. Robert M. Stevenson for their numerous helpful suggestions in the preparation of this article.

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36 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974). See also: Seventeenth-Century Villancicos from a Puebla Convent Archive, transcribed with optional added parts for ministriles (Lima: Ediciones “CVLTVRA,” 1974).

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