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Missa Mexicana. Harp Consort/Andrew Lawrence-King. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907293, 2002.
In 1622, the Spanish composer Juan Gutierrez de Padilla relocated to the Mexican city of Puebla de los Angeles to assume the post of cantor and assistant maestro de capilla at the thriving cathedral there. Part of his charge was to teach polyphonic singing to the choirboys, but he was also responsible for creating new music for use in worship services. Padilla's Ego Flos Campi is a parody mass in the established European tradition, much of its thematic material borrowed from a long-lost motet. But the flavor of the music takes at least as much from the New World as from the Old, and is characterized by rhythmic and melodic features that are distinctly Central American. Masses are rarely as danceable as this one, and Andrew Lawrence-King and his cohorts are at pains to point up the relationship between ...