Music and Dancing Spanish Colonial North America By Historical Region

Music and Dancing Spanish Colonial North America By Historical Region

Music and Dancing

Spanish Colonial and Mexican Era historical interpretation is very one-sided without the inclusion of music and dancing. Without the fandangos, fiestas and canciones, interpretation of these eras lacks the breath that the true history had. At any good Spanish Colonial or Mexican-era reenactment or living history event, there is always music in the air and dancing going on.

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Editor's Picks:

- Musica, maestro! The NWBO offers a program of historical music, song and dance of the colonial missions, presidios and outposts of Spanish-California and the frontier regions of New Spain. The music performed is carefully transcribed and edited from rar

- This site is for a group based in southern Alta California, which researches and recreates music of early California using original transcriptions from primary sources. A project of San Diego Friends of Old Time Music, a non-profit educational corporation
- The website for this CD includes historical notes for the music samples provided, as well as links to history related to the Argentine military. The historical music mentioned includes generic infantry drum/bugle calls dating back to the Spanish Colonial
- La Prensa San Diego reviews the San Diego based music group Los Californios, who performed at the San Diego Roots Festival.
- Playing traditional dance music and songs of the early California mission and gold rush era. They are based in northern Alta California and they recreate the Fandango, dance music of early California, and also an event to be celebrated. Musicians are c
- Music was essential to the life of Old Californio society. This site contains RealAudio, MIDI and lyrics for Early Californio songs, including MP3 selections from the Lumis collection.

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