LA ZAGALA MAS HERMOSA

9 singers
5 instrumentalists

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Centre d’Accueil
International de l’ancien Monastère
de Sainte-Croix
Cité de la Voix, Vézelay

The division between the sacred and the secular in Iberian musical practice is often difficult to grasp.
An extraordinary example of this between the Latin and vernacular and vernacular repertoires is a Parody Mass based on the vilancico “La Zagala mas hermosa”.

The pretty shepherdess described in the vernacular work becomes the figure of the Virgin in the Latin work.