1 janv. 1521 - Spanish Colonizers in Mexico

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Hernán Cortés and a small group of Spanish soldiers conquered Mexico in 1521, just two years after they landed near the modern-day city of Veracruz. The swift conquest of Mexico was made possible by the armies of native Mexicans, enemies of the Aztec, that Cortés enlisted as his allies. From the reports Cortés sent back to King Charles V of Spain, European audiences were astonished to learn of the existence of rich American empires such as that of the Aztec.

Beginning shortly after the fall of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, and continuing through three centuries of Spanish rule, the story of the conquest was illustrated with images of Cortés, Motecuhzoma II, important battles, temples, and the Mexican landscape. The resulting visual records were primarily intended for people who would never travel to Mexico. Conversely, the first Mexican images of the Spanish were created for Motecuhzoma II prior to the arrival of the Spanish in Tenochtitlan.

Important for music history, because part of what Spain brings to Mexico is the Catholic tradition and the music from the cathedrals, as well as iconography and architecture.

This has far-reaching implications in Mexican-Born composers who end up working in the Puebla Cathedral like Padilla, who work within the Catholic musical idioms and venetian double-choir stylings, etc...present in continental europe around the time they are composing, while having some minor inflections of the folk styles of whichever region of Mexico in which they hail.

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