From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 This wedding cantiga is a dialogue between the bride and those calling her to come down for the wedding. Her delay is because she is preparing herself...
From Arboleras vol. 1 - Sephardic cancionero and coplas oral tradition,1996 This song is about the bride's farewell from her family, as she leaves her home to go to live at her husband's house.
From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 This is a cantiga, which belongs to the songs centered around the ritual bath, banio, or mikveh in Hebrew. Here is a request for money to pay...
From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 This copla, associated with the ritual of circumcision, tells the story of Abraham's birth. Like many coplas, it is rooted in a Talmudic legend. It describes how...
From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 This songs reflects a mother's doubts about which profession a groom should have for a daughter. The daughter refuses all except the last, a shoemaker. This version...
From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 This wedding song includes typically several themes: 1. from Song of Songs chapter "Do not see me as being dark, for the sun has darkened me". 2....
From Arboleras Vol. 2 - Romances Sefardies Tradicion Oral This is a partial version of a Romansa centered on themes of captivity and identity during the era of the Christian–Moorish wars. The story, preserved in...
From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 This wedding cantiga structured in a Balkan asymmetrical meter of 9/8, describes the gifts that the bride and groom give to each other, while in the repeating...