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36. La bella en misa (CES)
… A very truncated version of the romance La bella en misa (CMP S7) as documented in Salonica … excellent apples from Skopje. The closest version of this romance is the one documented by Yacob Abraham Yoná of … Aeliyon from Salonica). The melody covers two lines of the romance in the AB BC CD, etc. pattern. The melody is a …
43. El infant cautivo (Çakum Effendi)
… This romance (CMP H16) was popular among the Eastern Sephardic … ES 106, BSG 089). Very little is therefore left of the romance’s narrative. However, the recording is musically … The melody in the ABCD form is characteristic of Sephardic romances. – Aaa, carcelero y piadoso, ansí el Dio te dé la …
44. ¿Por qué no cantáis la bella? (Çakum Effendi)
… two lines of ¿Por qué no cantáis la bella? (CMP J4), a rare romance among the Eastern Sephardic Jews, known mainly in …
56. El sentenciado del bajá (Mlle Mariette)
… A truncated version of the romance El sentenciado del bajá (CMP H23) documented in few … who is asked to save her son/daughter but cannot help. This romance has no parallel versions in the Hispanic or Balkan …
58. La despedida (Isaac Algazi)
… own compositions. Algazi describes it as a “Judeo-Spanish romance in makam Séba” and attributes its music to Haim …
73. Melisenda insomne (La Gloria)
… A short and truncated selection of lines from a romance widespread among Sephardic Jews in the Eastern …
Isaac Levy
… his life he published four books containing Sephardic romances and another ten volumes of liturgical songs. He …
La reina tiene dolores (La mala suegra)
… The opening verses of this romance, depicting the pains of a pregnant woman, are the … during the days and nights preceding the circumcision. This romance follows the prototype of the evil mother-in-law who …
Nani quere el hijo (La mujer engañada)
… This lullaby is a romance about a deceived wife ( Armistead 1978: topic L13). … have a common rhyme, í-a, following a common scheme of the romance genre. … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in …
Lavaba la blanca niña (La vuelta del marido)
… This is a fragment of a romance based on the theme of “the husband’s return” … and crying, meets a passing knight who, at the end of the romance, reveals himself as her husband. In the dialogue … tests her fidelity during his absence. The choice of this romance for this occasion is clear for two reasons: the …