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Bailes, Tonadas & Cachuas: The Music of the 18th Century Codex Trujillo del Peru. Adrián Rodriguez van der Spoel. In Spanish and English. Amsterdam: Deuss Music, 2013. 238 pages.
"Just what I have been looking for-a book about the Trujillo Codex of Peru!" That probably would not be your first reaction after discovering it, but don't let the title fool you. This is a fascinating and important book. The Codex Trujillo is a document in words, music, and pictures about the people of 18th-century Peru and the world in which they lived. Commissioned in 1776 by Baltasar Jaime Martínez Compañón, cantor of Lima Cathedral from 1768 to 1788 and Archbishop of Bogota from 1788 to 1797, the nine volumes of this codex are...