Title of piece: “Credo,” from Missa Ego flos campi
Composer: Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla
Date of composition: ca. 1650
Date of recording: 2002. Missa Mexicana.
Performer/Instruments: The Harp Consort, Andrew Lawrence-King, conductor.

What to Listen for:

  • Antiphonal, polychoral texture
  • Textural contrasts between antiphonal use of the two choirs and all eight voices singing together
  • Interjections of the word, “credo”
  • Instances of word painting
  • The use of declamatory homophony to draw attention to certain words
  • Instruments playing along with voices
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