Misa Criolla

(Sp. "Native mass")

   Setting of the ordinary prayers of the Roman Catholic mass in Latin composed by Ariel Ramirez (1921– ), completed in 1964. While faithful to the traditional liturgical forms of the stile antico, Ramirez incorporates a variety of Latin American folk idioms: vidala and bauala rhythms in the Kyrie; a carnavalito dance in the Gloria; an insistent chacerera trunca rhythm in the Credo; the Bolivian carnaval cochabambino in the Sanctus; and the estile pampeano in the Agnus Dei.

   The original scoring requires a four-voiced mixed choir, a tenor soloist, piano or harpsichord, bombo (type of percussion), guitar, double bass, charango (Andean snare), quena (Inca flute), and siku (Andean pipe). The work requires 20 minutes to perform.

   See also Folk Mass; Second Vatican Council.