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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Morena me llaman 2

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....

Morenica a mi me llaman 4

From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 This wedding song weaves together several recurring themes: A reference to Song of Songs, Chapter 1 — “Do not gaze at me because I am dark,...

Muchachicas de poco saber

From Arboleras - De las altas mares, Ecos Sefardies de la isle de Rodas, cd 2, 2009

Negra fue la hora

From Arboleras - De las altas mares, Ecos Sefardies de la isle de Rodas, cd 2, 2009

No pasas de la mi sala

From Arboleras vol. 1 - Sephardic cancionero and coplas oral tradition,1996 A wedding song portraying a conversation between an overprotective, jealous mother and her son (or daughter’s) lover, whom she is trying to dissuade from...

Non pases por la mi sala

From Arboleras - De las altas mares, Ecos Sefardies de la isle de Rodas, cd 2, 2009

Oy, que buena que fue la hora 2

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...

Oy que casas, oy que buena 3

From Arboleras vol. 1 - Sephardic cancionero and coplas oral tradition,1996 Here are two consecutive Bulgarian wedding songs, the first describes the beauty of the bridal home and the importance of dancing and celebration, and...

Poco le das, la mi consuegra 3

From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 This Bulgarian dowry song is an argument between the two future mother in laws. The groom’s mother, in the recurring verse, tells the brides mother that...

Poco le das, la mi consuegra 4

From Arboleras vol. 1 - Sephardic cancionero and coplas oral tradition,1996 This Bulgarian dowry song is an argument between the two future mother in laws. That of the groom claims that the bride’s mother is...

Rashelika

From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013.

Salgas, madre 2

From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 This song was traditionally sung to the groom's mother, when she welcomes her new daughter-in-law to at the reception welcoming the bride by her husband's family.

Si de la kabeza me keres

From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013.

Si este nino se durmiere 2

From Merendjenas, Orit Perlman, 2023

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