

Table of Contents
Editorial Note iii
Collaborators iv
Articles
The Puerto Rican: an Afro-Caribbean genre of the 17th century 1
Agustín Muñoz Ríos
Bands in Puerto Rico: Background, Trajectory, and Impact 42
John L. O'Halloran
Nine trifles about brevity 57
Luis Quintana
Journeys of the New Puerto Rican Song until the eighties 93
Carlos E. Rovira Valentín
Context and aesthetic influences in the "Carmelite Mass"«
by Ramón Morlá Trenchs 131
Luis F. Ruiz Pacheco