Music by Rubén Suárez y Tinna Pla, sung by Mara Aranda

Pista 07

Mara Aranda_cançó de bressol

“El marido carpintero”.  
Cantar de boda, parte del riquísimo corpus de cantares de novia. Perteneciendo al género de las cantigas, estos cantares de boda revelan los lazos de la lírica sefardí con la española medieval, en la pervivencia de formulaciones y escenas de la antigua lírica española. En este cantar, como fue tópico en la lírica hispánica (en las cantigas de amigo), se dirige la novia a su madre, para madrugar en un día de lunes, día señalado y azaroso en varios romances, para ir a “mercar” un marido. La elección de alguien hacendoso y exitoso en su profesión refleja los valores de la sociedad sefardí. Alguna estrofa sugiere la virginidad de la novia, en su arca cerrada cuya llave tiene el novio. 
 “A carpenter as a husband” .
Wedding song, chosen from the huge abundance of songs of this genre. These songs reveal the connection of Sephardic lyric with medieval Spanish, which is shown in the way phrases and scenes out of ancient Spanish lyric live on. In the first song, as a stereotype of Hispanic lyric (las cantigas de amigo), the bride visits her mother to get up early on a Monday, a bustling day in several romances, to go to "find a husband on the market". The choice of someone hard working and professionally successful reflects the values of Sephardic society. Some verse emphasize the virginity of the bride, whose key of her locked strongbox is kept by the bridegroom-to-be. 
Levantíme madre lunes de mañana 
fuérame al mercado como alboreaba. 
Y con el guelindón.

Mercara un marido de honra y de fama.
Carpintero era y maestro le llaman.
Y con el guelindón.

Maestro, maestro, adobeime este arca,
la llave de oro y la chapa de plata.
Y con el guelindón.

Hecha está la cama como de novia honrada,
con cinco almadraques y sábanas de Holanda.
Y con el guelindón.

Y a la media noche prima la llamaba
más blanda sois prima  que la seda fina
Y con el guelindón.

Levantíme madre lunes de mañana 
fuérame al mercado como alboreaba. 
Y con el guelindón.


Notas:
1_Almadraque: del ár. hisp. almaṭráḥ 'colchón'.
1.	m. p. us. Cojín, almohada o colchón.
2_Guelindón: pene
3_Adobeisme: reparadme


Monday in the morning mother I will get up
I will go to the market at the crack of dawn.
To find me a husband of honor and fame.
A Carpenter he is and master they call him.
Master craftsman, repair my footlocker,
with a key of gold and a lock of silver
Made is that bed for an honorable bride,
with five mattrasses and linen from Holland.
And at midnight and you will say
you are softer than the finest of silk.
Monday in the morning mother I will get up
I will go to the market at the crack of dawn.

Mara Aranda_El Marido Carpintero

“Una hija tiene el rey” (“Por qué no cantáis, la bella?”). 
Comienza con algunos versos de otro romance que sirven aquí como descripción del ambiente de la escena, y continúa (en otra rima) con una descripción de la fiel doncella y su arenga paralelística hacia su lucha por rescatar a su amado. Es un tema conocido en las baladas europeas y en el romancero hispánico.  
“The king has one daughter” (“Why don’t you sing, beauty?”).
The song begins with a few verses from another romance that serve as a description of the atmosphere of the scene, and continues (in another rhyme) with a depiction of the faithful maid and her harangue about her struggle to rescue the beloved. It is a well-known theme both in the European ballads and in the Hispanic romancero.
Una hija tiene el rey,  una hija regalada.
Su padre, por más valor un castillo la fraguara.

Con ventanas a la mar, por donde el aire le entrara;
por una entra el sol, por otras el aire de la mañana.

Por la más chiquita de ellas entra un gavilán y sale
con sus alas abiertas y no le hace ningún male.

Bordando está un camisón para el hijo de la reina.
Bordándole está con oro, labrándole está con seda.

Y entre puntada y puntada, un aljófar y una perla.
–‘¿Por qué no cantas, mi bien?; por qué no cantas, la bella?.

¿Por qué no cantas, mi bien?; por qué no cantas, la bella?’ –
– ‘Ni canto, ni cantaré, que mi amor está en la guerra.

Y una carta escriberé de mi puño y de mi letra,
que me traigan a mi amor sano, vivo y sin cadenas.

Y si no me le trajeren, yo armaré una gran guerra
de navíos por el mar, de gente armada por tierra.

Si no hubiere velas pronto, mis ricas trenzas pusiera;
si no hubiere remos pronto, mis lindos brazos pusiera.

 Si no viene capitán, me pondría a la bandera
para que diga la gente:‘viva, viva esa doncella;
que por salvar a su amor, se echó ella a la tormenta.’ –

Notas: 
-Aljófar (nombre masculino): perla pequeña de figura irregular.

Why doesn’t the beauty sing
A daughter has the king, a favored daughter.
Her father, to encourage her position, he built her a castle.
Through windows facing the sea, the air flows,
through one the sun blazes, through others the morning air comes in.
Through the smallest one a sparrowhawk enters and leaves
with widespread wings causing no harm.
She embroiders a nightgown for the son of the queen.
Embroidering it with gold, carving it with silk.
And between one stitch and another, one pearl and another.
"Why don't you sing, my treasure? Why don't you sing, my beauty?"
"Why don't you sing, my treasure? Why don't you sing, my beauty?
"Neither do I sing, nor will I sing for my love is at war."
"And a letter I will write from my own hand,
that they bring back my love to me, healthy and alive and without chains.
"And if they do not bring him back, I will wage a great war
with ships on the sea and an army on the land.
"If they don't set sails soon, I will use my sumptuous braids,
If they don't pull at the oars soon, I will use my beautiful arms.
"If no captain comes, I myself will take the helm
so that the people say: Long live that maiden,
to rescue her love, she throws herself into the storm.“

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Cantar de boda de la tradición de Tetuán en su origen.  Tal y como nos ilustra las profesora S. Weich al respecto, en sus versos aparece el motivo de ‘la fuente fecundante’ repetido en otros casos de poesía hispánica.

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Mara Aranda: the undisputed voice of the Mediterranean has become one of the most highly acclaimed names on the 21st Century Spanish music scene. Since 1995 she has toured many parts of the world, performing across Europe, in Morocco and in China , a broad repertoire of traditional song, Sephardic music and original compositions.

For two decades she has researched and sung Turkish, Greek and Occitan music; early, mediaeval and Sephardic song. Her legacy to date includes some 20 albums, much-deserved music awards, and praise from the public and the critics alike.

Mara has worked with such well-known groups as Speculum Ensemble, Oni Wytars and Ensemble Unicorn. Of particular note is her recent work with the group Capella de Ministrers, and their joint albums Els Viatges de Tirant lo Blanch, El Ciclo de la Vida, La Cité des Dames, and her latest Judeo-Spanish production, recorded live at the Palau de la Musica in Valencia, La Música Encerrada: Sefarad.

Mara Aranda’s work revolves around the Mediterranean tradition; she has brought a language and beliefs to the world. Never was this more true than with the release of the album Deria (Gallileo-mc, 2009): Ufi’s Independent Music Awards Best World Music Album 2009, and voted Best Album on Catalan Radio’s Hidrògen programme. It was also the most noted Spanish World Music production of 2009; in the World Music Charts Europe Top Ten for four straight months; and the only Spanish group to be mentioned in the Charts’ annual line up. On top of all that, the album was voted Ovidi Montllor Awards Best Folk Album 2009 as well as being nominated for the best lyrics and best arrangement categories. The new album Lo Testament (Bureo Musiques, 2013) is just as convincing as Deria, being nominated for the Ovidi Montllor Awards Best Folk Album 2013 just hours after being released.
In the spring of 2015 'Mare Vostrum' will be release the work that celebrates the 25 year of career of Mara Aranda .


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