| A lot of people believe that I began with the cinema,
and then started to write "absolute music"; it is not true.
I began with writing "absolute music", and then I worked
for the cinema because some directors called to me. I made experiences
of arrangements for the radio, the television, the theatre... Therefore,
I became known and was called for the cinema.For the film The
Mission, Roland Joffé wanted eclectic music...The film story is
true: it happened in the 18th century, in a period, musically, of
a renewal of the instrumental music. This music is brought by a priest,
playing oboe, in South America. He brings not only the instrumental
music, with his oboe, but the rules of the Trento's council (1), dating
from the end of the 16th century. It established some rules to put
some order in the liturgical music, for which Palestrina (2) is the
main responsible.Here are the two roots of the occidental music, put
in the film The Mission: the liturgical music rules and the instrumental
music. A third element added is the ethnic music, from the Guaranis.
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