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Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1958

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 51

Scope and Contents

Cobos: Felicitas Montano, b. 1892, Tome, NM. Good to fair recording. The following songs sung by Felicitas and Mrs. Jose de Leon Padilla, good to fair recording, songs came from a notebook that belonged to Father J. B. Ralliere, Tome, NM, 1858-1915. 1. Bonitos caracolitos (love song, beautiful snails); 2. Tu eres la dicha que yo ambiciono (love song); 3. Preso me llevan a la carcel (ballad, corrido, prisoner on way to jail, prison).

Cobos: Mrs. Jose de Leon Padilla, Tome, NM. Ultimo adios (good to fair recording, love song, last goodbye).

Cobos: Felicitas Montano, b. 1892, Tome, NM. Good to fair recording. 1. Vuela, vuela, mariposa, love song, butterfly, women); 2. Margarita, Margarita (love song, women).

Cobos: Mrs. Jose de Leon Padilla, Tome, NM. Women. Good to fair recording. 1. Manana se va tu prieto (love song); 2. La tarde muere sobre la playa (song, the afternoon dies over the beach); 3. La verbena (love song); 4. Recuerdas oh mujer, cuando te conoci, (love song, women, do you remember, oh woman, when I met you?); 5. Elena, ven a mis brazos (love song, Elena, come to my arms, women); 6. Blanca flor que en el campo naciste, (love song); 7. Despierta, hermosa (love song) 8. Soy aldeano (folk song, I am a villager); 9. Ensuenos de un jazmin(love song, dreams of a jasmine); 10. Cuando me vaya de aqu, (love song, when I leave here); 11. Quiero morir mejor (love song, I want to die better); 12. La marcha de Zacatecas, anthem, popular contemporary march tune, lyrics); 13. La ausencia (love song, contemporary Mexican American tune, the absence).

Cobos: Felicitas Montano, b. 1892, Tome, NM. Good to fair recording. 1. La morena (love song); 2. Preso por una pasion, Iove song); 3. Yo soy un medico de mucha fama (folk song).

Cobos: Mrs. Jose de Leon, Tome, NM. 1. Comadre, no se que hacer (folk song); 2. Me quiero confesar (himno, hymn).

Cobos: Felicitas Montano, b. 1892, Tome, NM. 1. Les contare lo que me paso (ballad, corrido); 2. Indita de Miguel (indita, incomplete); 3. Los milagros del glorioso San Antonio, alabado, romance, miracles of St. Anthony, incomplete); 4. Un testamento (folk song, decima).

Cobos: Manuel Perea, Manuel Perrea, b. 1881, Tome, NM. Indita del Ciquio Lucero (good to fair recording, ballad, a man who dies as a result of piercing one of his legs with an awl as he is making himself a pair of shoes, composed by Casimiro Lujan, New Mexico ballad set in 1884, sung and recited).

Cobos: Francisco Leyba, Leyba, NM. Fair recording. 1. Gloria a Dios en las alturas (himno, hymn, incomplete); 2. El dos de mayo (love song cancion); 3. La contra golondrina (Mexican American music, popular contemporay song, incomplete); 4. La paloma blanca (love song, the white dove); 5. La Lola y Buque Maine (sailor is hugged by Lola and thinks of a happy death before departing to Spanish American War, Battleship Maine, Cuba, women); 6. Himno a Hidalgo (anthem to Father Hidalgo, Mexico, Mexican Independencae); 7. Eres Dolores (love song, bella, women; 8. El cuando de Pecos (song style a cuando, tono de indita, corrida de gallo, riding on horse back, pulling up a rooster) ; 9. En una jaula de oro (Mexican American music, love song, popular contemporary tune, in a golden cage); 10. El barrio triste (love song).

Macario Leyba, Leyba, NM. 1. La creacion del mundo, decima; 2. La paraja, decima.

Cobos: Francisco Leyba, Leyba, NM. 1. La vida del hombre (folk song, life of a man, philosophical view, women); 2. La gloria (himno, hymn, church, religion); 3. La iglesia (himno, hymn); 4. La patria, (anthem, country, patriotism); 5. El marino (about a Spanish marine, war); 6. El militar (folk song, soldier, military life); 7. La partida militar (folk song, military party, politics, going off to war, soldier, departure), two variations); 8. La Guerra de Espana (folk song about the Spanish American War 1898, possessions, sinking of the Battleship Maine); 9. El trovador (love song, the troubadour); 10. La infelicidad de un amante (love song, the infidelity of a lover, women).

Dates

  • 1958

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English, Spanish

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 13 boxes (12.25 cu. ft.)

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository

Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451