Manuel de Falla - Siete canciones populares españolas (GSARCI VIDEO VERSION)

Siete canciones populares españolas ("Seven Popular Spanish Folk Songs") is a 1914 set of Spanish songs by the composer Manuel de Falla which is one of the most famous and most frequently performed sets of Spanish-language art songs. The set was dedicated to Madame Ida Godebska. Despite the undeniable “Spanishness” of most of de Falla’s music, this cycle of seven songs is one of the few to directly use pre-existing Spanish melodies. Written in Paris, toward the end of his seven-year stay, the songs have remained so popular as to have overshadowed most of his other vocal works. Their premiere occurred shortly after that of his opera "La vida breve". At the eve of a World War there is a certain naive quality to be found in these songs, a nostalgia for the folk-music of his homeland. Here is the list of songs in the song cycle, including their rough translations to English. 1. El Paño Moruno (The Moorish Cloth) On the fine cloth in the store a stain has fallen; It sells at a lesser price, because it has lost its value. Alas! 2. Seguidilla Murciana (Murcian Seguidilla) Who has a roof of glass should not throw stones to their neighbor's (roof). Let us be muleteers; It could be that on the road we will meet! For your great inconstancy, I compare you to a [coin] that runs from hand to hand; which finally blurs, and, believing it false, no one accepts! 3. Asturiana (Asturian Song) To see whether it would console me, I drew near a green pine, To see whether it would console me. Seeing me weep, it wept; And the pine, being green, seeing me weep, wept. 4. Jota They say we don't love each other because they never see us talking But they only have to ask both your heart and mine. Now I bid you farewell your house and your window too and even ... your mother Farewell, my sweetheart until tomorrow. 5. Nana (Lullaby) Go to sleep, Child, sleep, Sleep, my soul, Go to sleep, little star Of the morning. Lulla-lullaby, Lulla-lullaby, Sleep, little star of the morning. 6. Canción (Song) Because your eyes are traitors I will hide from them You don't know how painful it is to look at them. "Mother I feel worthless,Mother" They say they don't love me and yet once they did love me "Love has been lost in the air Mother all is lost It is lost, Mother." 7. Polo Ay! I keep a... (Ay!) I keep a... (Ay!) I keep a sorrow in my breast, I keep a sorrow in my breast (Ay!) that to no one will I tell. Wretched be love, wretched, Wretched be love, wretched, Ay! And he who gave me to understand it! Ay! (“Ay” can be translated as “alas” or as a cry of pain. In the context of this fiery song, “alas” is too mild an exclamation. Melismatic “Ay”s are a feature in Spanish gypsy-influenced cante hondo.) (Wikipedia, albertcombrink.com, kuscholarworks.ku.edu) Please take note that the audio AND the sheet music ARE NOT mine. Change the quality to 480p if the video is blurry. Original audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBknU8zxjCo NB. There is an earlier upload of the whole set 3 months ago by YouTube user Paco M., performed by Victoria de los Ángeles (soprano) and Alicia de Larrocha (piano). (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHMV1GFL3_g)

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