Re: [Fwd: NEW WEBSITE: Lingua Franca (Corre)]

[Francesco Spagnolo <yuval.italia...>]

It's probably the case to listen again to a couple of Jewish songs 
whose texts are examples of "lingua franca":

* "Fel shara" (or whatever the song is titled: Gerineldo' cd has it 
in "Huskudara Suite", track 16 of "En medio de aquel camino", 1994, 
CDG-1094 --- Judith: your help here, I remember you telling me some 
fascinating details about the song, and where it is from)

* "Wal viva, viva, nostro Burino" (track 36 of the CD "Italian Jewish 
Musical Traditions"): a Livornese song, whose text is in fact a 
parody of how North African Jews immigrated to Italy spoke in the 
17th century...
(also, Ramon Tasat recorded a version of this song in his CD "Cantata 
Ebraica", 2000, RT100D -- I do not agree with the way it was 
arranged, which tries to reproduce a "Renaissance sound" that in my 
opinion has very little to do with the song, but it is a fun piece in 
any case! -- collateraly, it seems that everything "Italian", and 
"Jewish", and "musical", MUST have something to do with the 
Renaissance, with Salomone Rossi, etc....)

Best,
Francesco



>On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, George Robinson wrote:
>
>>    This is sort of off-topic but I think it will be of
>>  interest to most of you.
>
>>  http://www.uwm.edu/~corre/franca/go.html
>
>A fascinating website. I was never aware that "Lingua
>Franca" was originally the name of a specific language.
>That this trading language had many Jewish
>contributions does not surprise me: the Dutch market
>language also consisted of many Yiddish words and
>phrases.
>
>By the way, it's interesting to note that this website
>has an edition number and a foreword, like in those
>old-fashioned paper publications...
>
>Thank you for forwarding this!
>
>
>  Groeten,
>  Irwin Oppenheim
>  i(dot)oppenheim (at) xs4all(dot)nl
>  ~~~*


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