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PNEUMA COLECCIÓN: HISTORICA Y TRADICIÓN<br />

Música religiosa y pr<strong>of</strong>ana <strong>de</strong> <strong>la</strong> España cristiana: Canto<br />

litúrgico gregoriano, Trovadores, Renacimiento, Barroco y<br />

Romanticismo.<br />

LA ESPAÑA JUDÍA, SEFARAD<br />

Sefarad – el nombre tradicional judío para <strong>la</strong> Penínsu<strong>la</strong> Ibérica<br />

– y, por extensión, <strong>de</strong> <strong>la</strong> cultura sefardí – tiene sus raíces en <strong>la</strong><br />

Iberia medieval judía. Actualmente ,en el repertorio sefardí, no<br />

hay canciones que se puedan consi<strong>de</strong>rar medievales. Mientras<br />

<strong>la</strong>s letras <strong>de</strong> muchos romances y cantares <strong>de</strong> boda tienen sus<br />

orígenes en <strong>la</strong> literatura <strong>de</strong> <strong>la</strong> España medieval o renacentista,<br />

<strong>la</strong>s melodías no son medievales, sino que forman parte <strong>de</strong> una<br />

tradición oral que se ha <strong>de</strong>sarrol<strong>la</strong>do a través los siglos, los<br />

continentes y <strong>la</strong>s culturas, hasta producir <strong>la</strong> mezc<strong>la</strong> única que<br />

constituye el repertorio ju<strong>de</strong>o-español. La poesía judía-ibérica<br />

medieval queda sin voz cantada, porque no nos ha llegado con<br />

sus melodías – los manuscritos nos dan los poemas, pero faltan<br />

<strong>la</strong>s partituras que les correspon<strong>de</strong>n. Durante estos últimos años,<br />

he preparado unos contrafacta (sing. contrafactum), poniendo<br />

melodías posiblemente conocidas por los poetas judíos <strong>de</strong> <strong>la</strong><br />

época con estos textos.<br />

PNEUMA COLLECTION: HISTORY AND TRADITION<br />

Sacred And Pr<strong>of</strong>ane Music From Christian Spain: Gregorian Chant,<br />

Mistrels, Renaissance, Baroque And Romanticism.<br />

JEWISH SPAIN, SEFARAD<br />

Sefarad – the traditional Jewish name for the Iberian Peninsu<strong>la</strong>, and by<br />

extension, Sephardic culture - to their roots in medieval Jewish Iberia.<br />

Of today’s Sephardic repertoire, there are no songs which can actually be<br />

said to be medieval. Many <strong>of</strong> the texts do have their roots in medieval<br />

or Renaissance Spain, but their melodies are not medieval: rather,<br />

they are part <strong>of</strong> an oral tradition which has <strong>de</strong>veloped over centuries,<br />

continents and cultures into the unique blend Ju<strong>de</strong>o-Spanish songs are<br />

today. At the same time, the Jewish poetry <strong>of</strong> medieval Spain remains<br />

mostly unsung, because it has not come down to us with its melodies.<br />

I have experimented with contrafacta: setting some <strong>of</strong> these poems to<br />

medieval melodies which the poets may have known.<br />

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