From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. This song in the rhythm of a habanera, presents a coquetish and flirtatious woman who comments on her suitors young and old. This version was partially based on a...
From Arboleras vol. 3, Sephardic songs from the 20th century, 2000 This song in the rhythm of a habanera, presents a coquetish and flirtatious woman who comments on her suitors young and old. This version...
From Arboleras vol. 1 - Sephardic cancionero and coplas oral tradition,1996 This Copla speaks to the discovery of Abraham of the one God. This is a partial version learned through the recording of Hanna Malaj.
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. With its characteristic nine line asymmetrical rhythm and structure of a Purim copla, this song combines several themes: the story of Haman who wished to destroy the people of...
From Arboleras vol. 1 - Sephardic cancionero and coplas oral tradition,1996 With its characteristic nine line asymmetrical rhythm and structure of a Purim copla, this song combines several themes: the story of Haman who wished...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. This song is by Sadik and Gazoz, (Sadik Gershon and Moshe Cazes) who set humorous ladino texts to popular tunes between 1924-1935 in Saloniki. This song about a musician...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. This is one of the themes about captives and prisoners typical of the Hispanic Middle Ages and the wars between Moors and Christians. Recognition between sisters is a theme...
From Arboleras vol. 3, Sephardic songs from the 20th century, 2000 Another traditional Sephardic song from the world of sewing and tailoring, about the making and sewing of buttons, one of the typical women's trades...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. Composed during the Balkan War of 1912-1913. The theme develops around the pain a wife that looses her husband, or possibly a mother who looses her son, his name...
From Arboleras vol. 3, Sephardic songs from the 20th century, 2000 Composed during the Balkan War of 1912-1913. The theme develops around the pain a wife that looses her husband, or possibly a mother who...
From Arboleras vol. 3, Sephardic songs from the 20th century, 2000 One of the first songs (composed by Beni Benayora, one of the first promoters of the new settlements) that tells of the difficulties of...
From Arboleras vol. 3, Sephardic songs from the 20th century, 2000 Among the trades, this song presents a character: the whitewasher, who is an ironic figure, since the lyrics say: "The whitewasher has dirty arms...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. This copla is likely influenced by late Midrashic sources, such as the Sefer HaYashar, which place Abraham’s birth in Ur Kasdim during the reign of King Nimrod, son of...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. This is a fragment of a Romance La princesa y el bozagi - The Princess and the House Painter, a story depicting the many unreasonable demands a spoiled bride...