Villancicos de Navidad »
Posted By hyperbola 12 months ago in Arts & EntertainmentA selection of christmas carols (villancicos de navidad) from the spanish speaking world. The article describes the history of the Villancico.
Spanish musical and poetic form consisting of several stanzas (coplas) linked by a refrain (estribillo). Originally derived from a medieval dance lyric and associated with rustic or popular themes, it was cultivated in the late 15th and 16th centuries. More than 300 appear in the famous Cancionero Musical de Palacio (c1490-1520), in three or four parts, with a melody in the top voice and a simple contrapuntal style. In the 16th century all voices shared in text and melody through imitation, as in the Italian madrigal; religious themes gained in importance and the genre entered the liturgy.
In the 17th century the religious villancico became more popular while the secular form was largely displaced by theRomance. From 1700 the villancico was affected by the Italian cantata style, and the dramatic effects became increasingly theatrical. Villancicos with vernacular texts were prohibited in the churches in 1765 but remained popular in both Spain and Latin America into the 19th century. Since then ‘villancico’ has meant simply ‘Christmas carol’.
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Feliz Navidad
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villancico navidad peru (alla baja jesucristo)
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=l5CJlfELA0c
paco de lucia y pepe de lucia - 1964 – villancico
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A Bélen Pastores
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http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=49DR0CKY5T4=related
Musica navideña - Gloria Estefan – Farolito (Columbia)
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Mi Burrito Sabanero | El Burrito De Bélen
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Los Reyes Magos - Villancicos - Musica Navideña
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José Luís Perales - Canción para la Navidad
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There are also musical criticisms of Christmas in the Spanish-speaking world.
Ska-P - Villancico (live)
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Finally, this is the origin of villancicos in the middle ages
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Oygan los dulzes ecos
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Propeller seems to screw up all the links in the same way! All those that end in =related should actually end in =related.
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I cannot fix this because when I edit the comment it is correct but then reverts to the failed form after updating.
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Well there was a good example of the problem. Seems to choke on ampersands (&). Each link should have read (&)feature=related rather than just =related (without the parentheses around the ampersand).
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Copy the link here. When you click on it, it will take you to the spanish youtube, but tell you (in spanish) that the link is invalid.
Paste in the link you copied from here. Then insert (&)feature=related (without the parentheses around the ampersand!) in place of =related.
It will then work.
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