Joan Batista Sanxo, or Juan Bautista Sancho, composer and scholar (Artà,
Majorca
Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island in the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain and located in the Mediterranean.
The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Bal ...
,
Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg
, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
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, 1772 or 1776 —
Mission San Antonio de Padua
Mission San Antonio de Padua is a Spanish mission established by the Franciscan order in present-day Monterey County, California, near the present-day town of Jolon. Founded on July 14, 1771, it was the third mission founded in Alta Californi ...
, California, 1830). He brought to California some of the first samples of 18th-century European music, including sacred
plainchant
Plainsong or plainchant (calque from the French ''plain-chant''; la, cantus planus) is a body of chants used in the liturgies of the Western Church. When referring to the term plainsong, it is those sacred pieces that are composed in Latin text. ...
, sacred
polyphony
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, as well as opera excerpts and instrumental arrangements with
basso continuo
Basso continuo parts, almost universal in the Baroque era (1600–1750), provided the harmonic structure of the music by supplying a bassline and a chord progression. The phrase is often shortened to continuo, and the instrumentalists playing th ...
. In 1803, he arrived in Mexico from his native Majorca and, in 1804, he settled in
Mission San Antonio, where he remained until his death in 1830. He co-wrote a curious ''Interrogatorio,'' reporting on the conditions of the natives, their social customs, their local flora, and even their music. He also compiled vocabularies of several of their languages. As a composer, his ''Misa en Sol'' and ''Misa de los Angeles'' are among his best works.
See also
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Surname:
*Alik Magin, Australian rules footballer
* Miłosz Magin (1929–1999), Polish composer and pianist
*Rhys Magin (born 1989), Australian rules footballer
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José Francisco Ortega José Francisco Ortega (1734 – February 1798) was an indigenous Californio soldier and early settler of Alta California. He joined the military at the age of twenty-one and rose to the rank of sergeant by the time he joined the Portola expedition ...
Bibliography
* Craig H. Russell, ''From Serra to Sancho: Music and Pageantry in the California Missions,'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
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Antoni Pizà
Antoni Pizà, born in Felanitx, Mallorca, Spain, in 1962, is a musicologist. After receiving a PhD at the Graduate Center of CUNY in 1994, he taught music history at Hofstra University in Long Island, at various colleges in CUNY, and at the ''Conse ...
, ed.; William J. Summers;
Craig H. Russell; Antoni Gili: ''J.B. Sancho: Pioneer Composer of California'', Palma: Universitat de les Illes Balears, 2007.
1770s births
1830 deaths
People from Mallorca
Spanish composers
Spanish male composers
Musicians from the Balearic Islands
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