Project “Musicat digital network”: from the research archive to the internet

Abstract

This text refers the 180 degree turn that took place in a research and dissemination project of the musical heritage protected in Cathedral collections and archives when members of the Seminar on the Music of New Spain and Independent Mexico came into contact with archaeologists engaged with heritage interpretation Manuel Gándara and María Antonieta Jiménez Izarraraz. It summarizes the objectives of the original project and the new ones of a significant disclosure project, aimed to the dissemination, in electronic media and social networks, of the data related to music that was collected in Cathedral council acts, choir books, music manuscripts and printed parts. This report emphasizes that, in both projects, music has been considered as a total social event that has been studied from the interdisciplinary stand point. It gives an account of a methodology being built on the fly following the guidelines for heritage interpretation and “significant disclosure” and mentions the main obtained products.