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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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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...
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Si habeis comido

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y6128/1 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 249, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. In this song the mother of the bride asks forgiveness from the guests...
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Si queres saber

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD2980/2 This songs announces that understanding the world can be explained immediately in thirty verses, in this version we have five focusing on the topic of love.
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Tardates Escolero

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y2994/21     Lyrics:    - Tardates, escolero,    d'arodear las viñas d'adónde me la trujistes    a esta blanca niña?                           Tardates, escolero,    d'arodear la plaza de dónde me la trujites    a esta blanca dama?...
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Todo lo que vos quero

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD 5216/32 This is a joyful, affectionate, and admiring wedding song filled with blessings and poetic compliments for the bride. Lyrics: Todo lo que vos quero aínda no sabes. Diceme,...
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Tres clavinas 1

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc 2087 /20 Typical of cancionero, this song has stanzas of various unconnected themes: one stanza presents the three carnations (the red one, for the beginning of love), another, about...
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Tu madre cuando te pario (Adio) 1

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y6188d/8 This song of love and despair, has the melody of an aria from Verdi's opera, La Traviata.
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Un cabretico 2

This is a fragment of the ladino version of the serial song Had Gadya, which appears in the Hagada of Passover and is sung at the end of the meal.      
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Un dicho me tienes dicho

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD2980/27 A wedding song that reflects the the bitter sweet moment of separation, in which the bride says goodbye to her mother, asking permission to leave with the one she...
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Una noche al lunar

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Una tadre de enverano

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Uno, Dos, Tres, Cuatro

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y4552/24 Referenced and notated in: Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle, pg. 72, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989, Susana Weich-Shahak.
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Ventanas altas, Adon Olam 1

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc1888/5 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 181, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. This love song, which tells of a diamond ring given to a beloved...
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Vestida de novia

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc 1038/10 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 236, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. One of the more common wedding songs with many variations. Turkish words...
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