Balaguera

'... I went to the church and I am glad I did so. They were singing High Mass. It is performed by peasants, who sing it perfectly. And when I say perfectly, I mean that in the fullest and strongest sense of the word. In our cathedral choirs the voices are never truer, nor more perfectly in unison, with more restrained harmony, nor more religious and more touching a melody.' F. Bouden de Saint-Amans (Fragmentss d'un voyage sentimental et pittoresque dans les Pyrenees (c1788)