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Missa Mexicana

album by The Harp Consort

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 31, 2023
Entity authorityQ16952725 ↗
Source-derived summary

Missa Mexicana is a studio album by international Early Music ensemble The Harp Consort. It was released in October 2002 under Harmonia Mundi, HMX 2907293. It juxtaposes a mass setting by Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla with Latin American and African folk dances that inspired it.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Missa Mexicana” is album by The Harp Consort. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Missa, Mexicana and album, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002. For this dossier, Missa, Mexicana and album is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “album by The Harp Consort” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 31, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q16952725. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2002.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Missa Mexicana”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Missa Mexicana primary sources, Missa Mexicana archive and Missa research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Missa Mexicana”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “Missa Mexicana” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.