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El Cantar de mio Cid shows signs of being designed for oral transmission. For example, the poem ends with a request for wine for the person who has recited it ( Es leido, dadnos del vino ). On the other hand, some critics (known as individualists) believe El Cantar de mio Cid was composed by one Per Abbad (in English, Abbot Peter [ 4 ] ) who ...
A cantar de gesta is the Spanish equivalent of the Old French medieval chanson de geste or "songs of heroic deeds".. The most important cantares de gesta of Castile were: . The Cantar de Mio Cid, where the triumph of the true nobility, founded on effort, merit and optimism is narrated, as opposed to the blood nobility that the fictitious characters Infantes of Carrión represent.
I (sic) a su sombra benigna, el Progreso la riqueza fundó nacional. El trabajo constante i (sic) activo daba al pueblo, munifico, el pan I (sic) era Guardia, el deber circunscrito, Del derecho del pueblo, el guardián. Coro IV La codicia de hermanos celosos agitada en constante inquietud: no consciente vivamos nosotros en la paz, el progreso i ...
(with the title Rhyming Chronicle of El Cid) Ramón Menéndez Pidal, in Reliquias de la poesía épica española, Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1951, pp. 257–289.(entitled Cantar de Rodrigo y el rey Fernando, this text was taken as a basis for many of the later editions, such as that of Carlos Alvar and Manuel Alvar, op. cit. infra.).
Portal of Gonzalo de Berceo in the Monastery of San Millán de Suso, which contains a sarcophagus claimed to be that of the seven infantes of the legend.. The Cantar de los Siete Infantes de Lara ("Song of the Seven Lara Princes") is a legend, perhaps derived from a lost cantar de gesta, that relates a tale of family feuding and revenge, centering on the murder of the eponymous seven infantes ...
La Paloma", "The Dove" in English, is a popular Spanish song that has been produced and reinterpreted in diverse cultures, settings, arrangements, and recordings over the last 140 years. The song was written by the Spanish Basque composer Sebastián Iradier (later Yradier) around 1860 after a visit to Cuba.
"The Man on the Threshold" (original Spanish title "El Hombre en el Umbral") is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was published in La Nación in April 1952 and added to the 1952 edition of the short story collection Aleph .
"Cantaré, Cantarás" was recorded with the purpose of raising funds to boost the campaigns of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Latin America. Producers Albert Hammond, José Quintana, Manuel Montoya, Peter Lopez, Luis Medina, and Jose Behar, Co-Founders of non-profit organization HERMANOS, producers of "Cantare, Cantaras" were in charge of the project, bringing together more ...