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No, I meant this, which I now have (I just had a sample disc at Titian's. Although it's called "New World Symphonies" it's using the word symphony in a very archaic sense, and all the pieces are choral. The particular track was "Los conflades de la estelya" by Juan de Araujo, a processional piece that mixed standard baroque/renaissance verses with more lively refrain sections that are precursors to the rhumba! (And I guess it was probably written in Bolivia rather than Peru - he moved there in 1676). The other similar piece on the disc is "Convivande esta la noche", with a very catchy alternation of 6/8 and 3/4 bars throughout. The other very obviously New World influenced piece is "Hanaq pachap kusikuynin" (on how many message boards does one get the opportunity to quote yer genuine Quechua/Aztec?), a renaissance hymn with some rather non-standrd harmonies and underpinned with a very non-churchy bass drum. The rest of the disc is also great, but I would not recognise it as out of the European mainstream.


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