This is music from a Christian rite that lived under Islam in Spain. It sounds Arab, doesn't it? But no, it predates Islam, and survived Islamic occupation. This ancient Christian music and the rite that supported it was suppressed when Roman Catholics reconquered Spain. The Church has since resurrected it. I first heard it performed live as a call-and-response, bellissima! You can get a sense of that since the intro is a solo and the Chorus comes in... I heard a better version.
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