Unfortunately, nowadays we are too prone to all kinds of influences in the artistic field. Many musicians feel good if they follow this or that style, without too much consideration for the heritage they received by virtue of their birth. This heritage is not only a collection of repertoires full of masterpieces of musical art, specifically of great works of sacred music, but also a sense of tradition, ideas that are vilified by those who have little or no knowledge of them. In short, we go after what does not belong to us because we have not well considered our own great heritage. Unlike our great predecessors, we are uncapable of synthesis.
An example of this among many is offered by the Spaniard Cristobal de Morales (1500-1553), from Seville, who was papal singer in Rome.
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