Documentación musical en el Convento de San Francisco de Quito: libros litúrgico-musicales, órganos y coristas

Hitherto, research works carried out in the General Archive of the Franciscan Order in Ecuador (AGOFE) have not shown traces of musical life in the Convent of San Francisco de Quito. Therefore, through a musicological approach, this article aims to provide information concerning the outstanding task by the Franciscan Order in the artistic and musical development in Quito from the sixteenth century on, the production and acquisition of liturgical-musical books, and the acquisition of the big organs. Finally, a list of the friars who professed for the choir in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is provided.