This conductorвЂ™s guide will seek to demystify the work, focusing on practical issues that conductors face in preparing and presenting Misa Criolla. While widely admired, Misa Criolla is sometimes viewed with a degree of skepticism by conductors in North America because of a lack of available information related to the traditional elements in the music, the creole instruments used in its scoring, challenges with language and rhythm, and questions about the viability of the available printed score. Once he composed and recorded Misa Criolla, following right on the heels of the second Vatican Council with a newly authorized translation of the mass into Spanish, the work quickly gave him an international presence. Composer and pianist Ariel RamГrez spent much of his life studying and promoting the folk traditions of his homeland in Argentina. Although Misa Criolla has been a popular work since the first recording was issued in 1964, until recently there has been little written about the work itself, or its composer, in part because of the unique and localized folk elements that constitute its compositional framework.

Que es la misa criolla