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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Decia el aguadero

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y4552/13 Referenced and notated in: Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle, pg. 57, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989 Susana Weich-Shahak. This song refers to fertility, it tells about ...

Decile a mi amor 1

This song, as many other North Moroccan wedding songs, is often sung consecutively with other songs in a continual rhythm accompanied by a single castanet.

Decile a mi amor 2 , Y estas casas altas son 2

From Decile a mi Amor, Judeo-Spanish songs from Tetuan, 2018. Two wedding songs from North Morocco full of desciptions of sensuousness (light rain, apples), love (like the love that pierces) as well as stability (tall...

Demes paras para el banio 1

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc1038/8 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 213, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. This is a cantiga, which belongs to the songs centered around the...

Demes paras para el banio 2

From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 Orit Perlman: voice Yarden Erez : ud, guitar, gumbush; violin, keyboard and arrangements Zeev Yaniv : darbuqa, sonaja, bendir, cajón Sung at the bride´s ritual bath before...

Desde hoy, la mi madre

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y3996/11 Referenced and notated in: Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle, pg. 71, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989 Susana Weich-Shahak. In this song the bride asks her mother...

Dice la nuestra novia 1

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y2185/14 Referenced and notated in: La Boda Sefardi, pg. 92, Editorial Alpuerto, 2007 Susana Weich-Shahak. During the bride’s bath, an event attended only by women, that, in both the Eastern...

Dice la nuestra novia 2

During the bride’s bath, an event attended only by women, that, in both the Eastern and Western Sephardic traditions, a cumulative song is performed. Similar to the Portrait of the Lady known in various regions...

Dice la nuestra novia 3

From Arboleras - De las altas mares, Ecos Sefardies de la isle de Rodas, cd 2, 2009 During the bride’s bath, an event attended only by women, that, in both the Eastern and Western Sephardic...

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...

Dicho me habian dicho 2

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y 5672c/21 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 271, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. This is a song of parting of the bride from her family...

Dicho me habian dicho 3

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5433/2 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 271-272, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. A song of parting of the bride from her family. This is a...

Dicho me habian dicho 4

From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 A song of parting of the bride from her family. This is a widely spread song in the congregations of Turkey, Saloniki, Sarayevo and Rhodes. This...

Dicotin Dicotan

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