Misa Criolla
Mexican Baroque Music | Música Temprana
Música Temprana presents the famous Argentine Misa Criolla and Mexican Baroque music.
The Misa Criolla is a musical arrangement of the Spanish Mass text, in which rhythms from Argentine folk dances form the musical foundation. The work is part of a musical development that emerges from the fusion of Spanish Baroque with indigenous and African influences.
Mexico was one of the great musical centers of the colonial period and had the largest musical archive of the Spanish world empire. The villancicos are works that were composed for performance during major church festivals, where the exceptional use of folkloric rhythms, derived from theater and dance, was permitted, but then applied within a polyphonic and academic compositional technique. The result is a contrapuntal texture within a spectacular and complex rhythmic whole.
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