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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Parida esta la parida

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5457/1 Referenced and notated in: Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle, pg. 34, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989 Susana Weich-Shahak. This song precedes the ritual of circumcision, praising...

Pario me mi madre

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc 1620/5 The dirge tells of a woman born into misfortune and raised away from her mother, marked from birth by darkness and bad omens. Her arrival occurs on a...

Pase la novia andando

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5418/12 Referenced and notated in: Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle, pg. 55, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989 Susana Weich-Shahak.

Poco le das, la mi consuegra 1

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y 2091/6 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 193, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. This song was performed at the exhibition of the bride’s dowry, as...

Poco le das, la mi consuegra 2

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y2096/6 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 194, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. This song was performed at the exhibition of the bride’s dowry, as mocking...

Que mos diga la nuestra novia

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD5216/57 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 226, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. During the bride’s bath, an event attended only by women, that, in both...

Quen es esto de la ventana

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc1097/10 This philosophical love song marvels at a beautiful light seen through a window and wonders if it is the morning star or the eyes of their beloved. It turns...

Quen pensa de se enamorar

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5671/30

Salgas, madre 1

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y2091/2 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 278, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. This song was traditionally sung to the groom's mother, when she welcomes her...

Secretos quero descubrir

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y6188d/14

Si este ninio se durmiere 1

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: NSA Yc 2326/21 Referenced and notated in: Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989 Susana Weich-Shahak This beautiful lullaby with Spanish roots, is unusual...