La Congregación de las Madres Oblatas de Corazón de Jesús y María en Cuenca, primera mitad del siglo XX: canciones dedicadas a la Santísima Virgen María

Abstract

Through a brief tour of the musical religious history of the Oblate Congregation of the city of Cuenca during the first half of the twentieth century, this paper presents the sound’ s displays dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The liturgical and religious music of the Oblate Congregation inside the convent and the Church which they belonged to (Church of Todosantos), fulfilled a function dedicated to prayer and the singing of the divine office, characterized by being generally a choir and for being transmitting traditional oral tradition. In the analysis of the manuscript musical repertoire, recovered in the Archives of the Congregation, the principal avocations are those that make reference to: María, Jesús, San José, the Blessed Sacrament, the Saints and other patrons. With this background, this paper aim at studying the analysis of the context of the dedication of the Blessed Virgin Mary, present in the music recovered from the archive of the Oblate Congregation of the city of Cuenca, taking as a model a song of the book called Anúario Lírico, "Month of Mary", which contains a compilation of songs used for the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the religious calendar of the month of May.