Cantigas/Cancionero

Lyrical and life-cycle songs structured in stanzas. Some are sung freely, while others play roles in life rituals, especially the many stages of marriage, including ritual bathing (mikve), dowry, farewell to parents, and the wedding ceremony. Like Romancero, these songs primarily belong to the women’s domain.

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Abrimes (Avrishme) galanica 1

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y 2774/18 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 172, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. This is nocturnal love song of tenderness and stealth, where the young...

Abrimes (Avrishme) galanica 2

From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 This is nocturnal duet is a love song of tenderness and stealth, where the young lover pleads to be let in before dawn, while the girl...

Abrimes (Avrishme) galanica 3

From Arboleras - De las altas mares, Ecos Sefardies de la isle de Rodas, cd 1, 2009 The text of this well known lyrical song consists of a dialogue in which the bride heaps difficulties...

Alhad dublo y guadro

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y 5884/60 This song describes the wife's chores of the week as she describes them to her husband, while she longs to work on her beautiful embroidery. On Shabbat, the...

Arbolicos de iasmin

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: CD4508/3

Aserico de quince anios

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5671/58

Avre la puerta del kubush 1

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement:Y3979 This is a lyrical cantiga of disconnected stanzas, with Turkish words included in the text. The second stanza alludes to military service, since he has weapons (a revolver instead of...

Bre, Sarica, bre

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc1097/32

De que voy y vengo

From Arboleras - De las altas mares, Ecos Sefardies de la isle de Rodas, cd 2, 2009 This is a simple and playful love song.

Dicho me habian dicho 1

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc2774/2 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 268, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. This is a song of parting of the bride from her family and...

En una kaza rika

From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 Orit Perlman : voice Yarden Erez : accordian and arrangements This well known love song has borrowed its melody from a Bulgarian folk song, from which we...

Esto quien la culpa

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD2980/48 In this song the guardian of the house (el hangi bashi) did not bolt the door properly resulting in the pregnancy of the bride, her belly now is the...

Komo ‘l pasharo ke bola

From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025

La rosa enflorese

From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 Orit Perlman : voice Yarden Erez : accompanyment and arrangements One of the better known Ladino songs, adopted from a Bulgarian folksong song, as presented in the...

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