coplas

A mayor abundamiento, diremos que el Cancionero de la Colombina registra veinte piezas comunes con el de Palacio, sea por la música sea por el refrán, estribillo o tema inicial glosado en coplas, las cuales, con todo, a veces no coinciden.

Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

The subsequent clandestine burial in the dead of the night was dangerous for the entire community, but fortunately went unnoticed; all these experiences are described in Ladino poetry (coplas).

Bouena Sarfatty Garfinkle. 2009

As for the coplas (verses), La Bamba has hundreds – they say over a thousand – but who can count them as they are being created everyday.

La Bamba explained: the music of Veracruz 2006

As for the coplas (verses), La Bamba has hundreds – they say over a thousand – but who can count them as they are being created everyday.

La Bamba explained: the music of Veracruz 2006

Children are constantly heard singing _coplas_ which are evidently of recent production, since they speak of recent events, and yet which have the air of old folklore ballads, of concentrated bits of history.

Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin

No sooner has an event happened than it finds its history recorded in some of these popular _coplas_, and sung by the children at their play.

Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin

I heard them wake each other; I saw them make their toilets; and from the town far below my terraced garden the sound of bells came up — church bells, bells of mules and horses beginning work, while their masters sang _coplas_ with a lilting Moorish wail.

The Car of Destiny Armand [Illustrator] Both 1901

Conde-Duque de Olivares, the favourite of Philip IV, had been the scene of innumerable festivals which swallowed millions of money, and gave rise to many biting "pasquinas" and "coplas."

The Stretton Street Affair William Le Queux 1895

[17-1] “Son amigos de hacer colloquios y decir coplas en sus bailes.”

The Annals of the Cakchiquels Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

[30] "Don Jorge Manrique," says Lope de Vega, "cuyas coplas Castellanas admiren los ingenios estrangeros y merecen estar escritas con letras de oro."

The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 William Hickling Prescott 1827