This article discusses, from the concept of center and periphery, the dynamics produced around peripheral religious musical activity in Chile during the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Specifically in regard to the specific generated first by the ongoing regulations issued from the Catholic Church, aimed at curbing certain aspects considered improper and away from the sobriety that would be imposed on the liturgy, and second, in terms of permanent and persistent presence of secular elements in it, which, seen from the concept put at the beginning, manifests as a dynamic spaces and various social actors in a society marked by the unequal social pyramid.