4/29/2023 0 Comments Misa Criolla Partitura Pdf![]() ![]() The Ramirez Mass, composed just after Vatican II, could be seen as a positive expression of the full flowering of faith in Latin America, poised to re-evangelize the Old World. It belongs to the story of the Church in Europe evangelizing the Americas. The musical tradition of the Jesuit missions and the reductiones are indeed a special part of American religious history, a tradition that is both beautiful and tragic. I find myself appreciating it in the same way that I do the Vaughan Williams “Mass in G,” which seems to seek a Catholic ethos in an indigenously English modality. His European training and craft permeates the composition, tempering and weaving together elements of style that are both pan-American and “creole,” that unique fusion of New- and Old-World cultures and peoples. ![]() ![]() But Ariel Ramirez was a serious composer of art music, incorporating into his music folkloric elements of the entire South American continent. “Of and for the people,” in a sense, yes. ![]()
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