[Mexican choir books] [v. 3]

Catholic Church. · 1600 · Mexico City · 2 pictures

This is a manuscript Catholic choir book of Latin sacred music, copied in Mexico City around 1600 for use by church singers in the liturgy. The pages show hand-ruled staves with black square-note chant and polyphonic parts, each line of text set beneath its notes in brown ink. A designer might draw on the dense, rhythmic grids of neumes and the warm, aged paper tones for pattern, texture, or historical lettering reference.

Catholic Church · Polychoral music · Sacred vocal music · Church music · Service books (Music) · Manuscripts, Latin · Music

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