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''[[MI(SA)]]'' is a cboral triptych formed by Ariel Ramírez’ ''[[Misa Criolla]]'', Guido Haazen’s ''[[Missa Luba]]'', and ''[[Nuwe Verbond]]'' by [[Antoni Schonken]] and [[Antjie Krog]].  

==Original texts==

* ''[[Misa Criolla]]''

In 1963, after the Second Vatican Council authorized vernacular mass settings, Ramírez created his widely popular ''[[Misa Criolla]]'' on a Spanish translation of the traditional liturgical text, including folkloric interpolations such as the "lara, lara" passage in the Credo. Each movement of the compact mass is based on specific folk material, particularly dance rhythms: the austere ''vidala-baguala'' of northern Argentina for the ''Kyrie'', the ''carnavalito'' and ''yaraví'' from the same area for the ''Gloria'', the obsessive ''chacerera trunca'' from central Argentina for the ''Credo'', the syncopated Bolivian ''carnaval cochabambino'' for the ''Sanctus'', and the ''Agnus Dei'' is composed in the characteristic style of the southern pampas.

* ''[[Missa Luba]]''

The ''[[Missa Luba]]'' is a setting of the Latin Mass sung in styles traditional to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was composed by Fr Guido Haazen, a Franciscan friar from Belgium, and originally celebrated, performed, and recorded in 1958 by Les Troubadours du Roi Baudouin (English: "King Baudouin's Troubadours"), a choir of adults and children from Kamina, Katanga Province. It would later become the partial basis for a Congolese usage of the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite Mass, the Zaire Use.

* '[[Nuwe Verbond]]''

Krog incorporated personal stories from members of the [[CTO Chorus]] into her haunting text for “a scientific Mass that exorcises the damage we do to each other, and to our planet.”

== Performance history in South Africa ==

2019: Produced by [[NATi]] at [[US Woordfees]] and at the [[Suidoosterfees]] at [[Artscape]], ''[[MI(SA)]]''’s creative team included [[Marthinus Basson]] (director), [[Pieter Bezuidenhout]] (conductor), [[Sifiso Kweyama]] and [[Ina Wichterich]] (choreography), [[Michael Mitchell]] (set and costume design) and [[Chris Pienaar]] (lighting design).

== Sources ==

https://capetownopera.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/AR-Version-10.pdf

https://www.laphil.com/musicdb/pieces/2346/misa-criolla

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missa_Luba

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