Songs-Festive season cycle
A song may be defined as a form of oral expresion that combines poetry and music to communicate artistically messages and express emotions. The Spanish word for song "canción" on occasion can be a synonym of song or chant and of epic poem. But not so on other occasions, since chant designates sometimes the set of poetical-musical genres, so much epic as lyrical and narrative, and leaves the term song to designate a lyrical song, a narrative song for a romance or ballad, and the term epic poem ("cantar") for the meaning of "epic song".
In our index we have decided on a functional and ocasional classification, that is, the songs have been indexed according to the social and cultural function each song accomplishes at the moment of its performance and the ritual context in which it takes place.
However, the song admits other specific and significative categories. Firstly it depends on the authorship and its transmision. According to this category, we distinguish traditional songs, popular songs, improvised songs and learned songs. Another category is the form and content of the traditional song, according to which we distinguish lyrical, narrative, serial and epic songs. We have used these categories for the classification and analysis, since we have differenciated lyrical and serial songs from the narrative ones (Romance and narrative songs) and we have analysed in every testimony in terms of it being traditional, popular, improvised or learned.
- Descarga PDF1 El género literario del Cancionero
- Descarga PDF2 Los cancioneros en Navarra: estudio de conjunto
According to the functional and ocasional classification, we have grouped the songs, firstly, relative to annual Western- Christian festivals.
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