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Un solo camino. Harp music from Latin America, Lincoln Almada harp, Fra Bernardo FB 1211132 (2015)

The harp and the guitar arrived in Latin America in the beginning of the 1600s in the hands of the Jesuits who used music as a tool for evangelism. Since then, European music tradition combined with the already existing rhythms and musical traditions, both native, European and African.

Violeta Parra (1917 – 1967)
Gracias a la vida
Lorenzo Leguizamon (*1920)
Curucau veve
Roberto Marquez (*1951)
Pampa lirima
Emilio Bobadilla Caceres (1907 – 1969)
Chipera luque
Bernardo Avalos (*1920)
Virgen querida
Demetrio Ortiz (1916 – 1975)
Recuerdos de Ypacaray
Transito Cocomarola (1918 – 1974)
Kilometro 11
Rapsodia andina
Gerardo Arias (1904 – 1983)
El canelazo
Jaime Torres (*1938)
Caminos en la Puna
Mauro Nuñez (1902 – 1973)
Cancion y huayno
José Luis Ferreira (*1976)
Juan Payé *
Demetrio Ortiz (1916 – 1975)
Mis noches sin ti
Traditionell Paraguay
Carreta vy
Emigdio Ayala Baez (1917 – 1993)
Sublime añoranza
Carlos Bonnet (1892 – 1983)
La partida *
Luis Bonfa (1922 – 2001)
Manhã de carnaval

Lincoln Almada Paraguayan Harp
with
Evangelina Mascardi baroque guitar *

The harp arrived in Latin America in the beginning of the 1600s in the hands of the Jesuits who used music as a tool for evangelism. In 1604, the Jesuit province of Perù was divided and the new Jesuit province of Paraguay or «Paraquaria» was formed which included the territory that currently includes eastern Bolivia, southern Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, north-western Argentina and, initially, also Chile.
The Jesuits introduced European musical instruments, installed factories for their production and initiated the «Indians» in the art of music, both sacred and profane. After years of work with the inhabitants of the «reducciones», the fathers Antón Sepp, Domenico Zipoli, Martin Schmid and Luis Berger achieved such a high musical level that Pope Benedict XIV, in his encyclical dated February 19, 1749, stated that «there is almost no difference between the masses and vespers sung by the devotees in the province of Paraguay and ours».