[Mexican choir books] [v. 2]
A manuscript choir book of Latin sacred polyphony copied by hand in Mexico City around 1600, made by the Catholic Church for use in church services. The page shows five-line staves with black square and diamond noteheads, many ligatures, and a few red-brown or pale marks, with Latin text written in ink under the notes in a cramped, slanting hand. A designer could take the dense, rhythmic interlocking lines of the notation as a texture for patterns, or the aged paper and ink as a source for worn, historical backgrounds.
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