Musical education in Pasto in the 19th century, an overview from different perspectives

Abstract

This article is the result of a heuristic scanning of different documents deposited in the Historical Archive of Pasto (AHP) concerning musical processes that occurred throughout the 19th century, which document a first approach to the study of the teaching of music in the city at that time. Documentary and bibliographic sources identify a complex historical corpus based on five axis that drove these processes, which are: empirical instruction (the guilds), instrumental practice (bands and orchestras), the hereditary transmission of musical knowledge (families of musicians), and the participation of religious communities and school training (The Academy of music). A review of AHP documents evidences the importance of music in nineteenth-century Pastusian society, its everyday practices and constant efforts to achieve formalization and training.