“Tomo mi bien de donde quiera que lo encuentre”. El problema de las apropiaciones del arte europeo en la iconografía musical novohispana

Abstract

 Different branches of humanistic and artistic knowledge in Mexico began a progressive approach to exploring iconographic methods in the middle of the XX Century. Since then, the infinite vastness and enormous attractiveness of viceroyal works of art incorporating musical images have furthered the intervention of researchers, with the most diverse backgrounds, and even of amateurs in Mexican arts, in the field of musical iconography. The urgency to prevent scholars of musical iconography from New Spain, present or budding, fallible conclusions regarding interpretations of meaning of images borrowed from an art foreign to this chronological and geographic milieu moved this academician to develop a set of methodological recommendations and practical tools meant to set in context appropriation within the framework of viceroyal art, as well as to typify and to create a hierarchy of the elements constituting it. The present report will be employed to demonstrating the efficiency of applying these resources to finding and identifying appropriations of European art to musical iconography of New Spain and its contribution to unveiling the intertextuality of already localized cases.