>> Of course, like you, I doubt whether the Pope would have expected a
>> strummed guitar in Palestrina's Messa Papae Marcelli. Indeed, is there
>> even any evidence for the excessive strumming in some modern
>> fashionable performances of South American sacred settings?
>
> Probably not as much as players today like to think - but Eloy perhaps could
> tell us more about that if he is not too busy.
Well, I know no "excessive strumming in some modern fashionable performances
of South American sacred settings". The only example that comes to my mind
is the "Missa Mexicana" CD by the Harp Consort: it's a setting of Missa Ego
flos campi by JG de Padilla. The list of performers includes 6 guitar
players and 3 percussion players, one of whom also plays conch shell. I
think this CD could really be called fashionable: in between the Missa
movements, it mixes some dance-songs, villancicos and even a vocal version
of Murcia's Cumbees "alla Swingle Singers".
The liner notes only explain that the guitar was the most significant
instrument of Spanish baroque music, and mention that a "set of 6 matched
Veracruz baroque guitars" was specially made for this project. Anyway, I
can't hear any excessive strumming in any of the tracks.
Cheers
eloy
>
>> We also agree on the excessive strumming ('thrashing about') often
>> found in some modern performances of solo songs.
>
> Yes indeed!
>
> Monica
>>
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