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 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...

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.

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...

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...

Lo moreno krio el Dio (A la uno yo nasi)

From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. A well known cantiga of love and longing.

Los caminos de Sirkigi 2

From Arboleras vol. 1 - Sephardic cancionero and coplas oral tradition,1996 Typical of the cantigas genre, the order of the strophes are not necessarily important. The text speaks of the sand paths in Sirkigi, where...

Muchachicas de poco saber

From Arboleras - De las altas mares, Ecos Sefardies de la isle de Rodas, cd 2, 2009 This is a song warning girls against wedding men who are much older than they are.

Negra fue la hora

From Arboleras - De las altas mares, Ecos Sefardies de la isle de Rodas, cd 2, 2009 El amor doliente - The suffering love, is a love song that portrays the disappointment in a relationship...

Ni blanca sos

From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013.

Tu madre cuando te pario (Adio) 2

From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 This song of love and despair, has the melody of an aria from Verdi's opera, La Traviata.

Ventanas Altas, Adon Olam 2

From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. This love song, which tells of a diamond ring given to a beloved named Marika in the repeated chorus, includes Greek lyrics that hint at its origins in Saloniki....

Viaje grande, viaje chiko

From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 Orit Perlman : voice Yarden Erez : guitar