La Educación Musical en la Provincia de Pasto en el Siglo XIX

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to lay the epistemological basis for the construction of the history of music education in the province of Pasto in the nineteenth century. From documentary and bibliographic sources has been identified that address four main musical training processes, which build a complex historical corpus, these axes are the empirical investigation (guilds), instrumental practice (bands and orchestras), the hereditary transmission of musical knowledge (from parents to children) and training school (the Academy of Music). Using procedures paleographic documents are able to reconstruct the Historical Archives of Pasto (HAP) in which there was evidence of the importance of music in nineteenth pastusa society and schooling processes of it.