The Franciscan Narciso Durán (1776–1846), who developed a basic pedagogy for teaching church music, was one of the first to be active in teaching Western music to the Indian neophytes of the California missions. In commenting on selected passages taken from Padre Durán’s Prólogo, Howard Swann writes:
Alfred Robinson
, visiting the same
mission
in 1828, wrote that “the solemn music of the mass was well selected, and the Indian voices accorded harmoniously with the flutes...