From Arboleras Vol. 2 - Romances Sefardies Tradicion Oral The ballad of Juan Lorenzo refers to an episode in Portuguese history: the adulterous affair between King Ferdinand I (14th century) and Leonor Tellez, wife of...
From Arboleras vol. 1 - Sephardic cancionero and coplas oral tradition,1996 This is a song of good advice to the Bar Mitsvah boy as he grows into manhood: to be hard working and an early...
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.
From Arboleras - De las altas mares, Ecos Sefardies de la isle de Rodas, cd1, 2009 The romance about The Deceived Woman (La mujer engañada) is formulated like a lullaby. The protagonist, in the first...
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...
From Arboleras vol. 1 - Sephardic cancionero and coplas oral tradition,1996 This copla celebrates the giving of the Torah, drawing on Talmudic commentaries and legends, and interweaving numerous Hebrew expressions. It is composed in quatrains...
From Arboleras Vol. 2 - Romances Sefardies Tradicion Oral This beautiful romance is unique to the Sephardic tradition. It tells the story of a king who envies his nephew (in most texts, as in ours,...
From Arboleras vol. 1 - Sephardic cancionero and coplas oral tradition,1996 This song was performed at the exhibition of the bride’s dowry, as mocking dialogue-dispute between the groom´s mother and the bride´s mother, the two...
From Arboleras Vol. 2 - Romances Sefardies Tradicion Oral Here we find a common occurance, a fusion of two romances, both from the French epic tradition, El cautiverio de Guarinos, lines 1-10, and El sueño...