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Ruben Cobos, Ernie Orona, recorders, 1949, 1970

 File — Box: 2, CD: 207

Scope and Contents

Cobos, 1949: Joe Edward Korte, Jose Edward Corte, b. September 5, 1880, Las Vegas, NM. (Cobos note, this was the origins of the UNM music collection). Mama Carlota, Mama Carlotta (un redondo, violin solo, baile, dance, poor recording).

Jose Pena, b. 1890, Las Lagunitas, NM (playing violin) and Meliton Lovato, b. 1900, from Gonzalitos, near Cuba, NM (playing guitar). (Fair to poor recording). 1. Cuna, Las Felicitas (instrumental, guitar and violin); 2. Vals, waltz (instrumental, guitar and violin).

Joe Edward Korte, b. 1880, Las Vegas, NM. (Fair recording) 1. Datos personales (personal information, Eduardo Corte, born in Mora County, 69 years old); 2. Redondo, Serena esta la noche (violin solo); 3. Indita de Cochiti (poor recording, short song, fragment).

Exequiel Candelaria, b. 1885, Santa Barbara, Albuquerque, NM. Decima, En una redoma de oro (fair to poor recording).

Leonardo Casados, b. 1880, Cuba, NM. Decima, Hasta la cama en que duermo (love song, he sings to his negrita, compliment meaning little dark woman, women, marriage, fair recording).

Jose D. Moya, Jose de Moya, b. 1879, Canjilon, NM. Decima, Si gustas de verme muerto (poor recording, short song, death, women, marriage).

Adolfo Castillo, b. 1878?, also given as June 3, 1877. La Alameda, NM. Decima. En una redoma de oro (fair to poor recording, golden flask, birth of Jesus, Christianity).

Presentacion Lucero, b. 1879, Cuba, NM. Decima, Vuelvete, esposo querido (woman sings to husband who abandoned her, asks that he return, women, love, marriage, fair recording).

Vicente Sanchez, b. 1889, Las Lagunitas, NM. La Santa Maria (fair recording, humor, song, mixes religious prayer Hail Mary with everyday life, after saying one line of the prayer, he explains it with a sung verse, faith, religion, Virgin Mary, cancion comica, humor).

Abran Sanchez, b. 1890, Cuba, NM. 1. Desde la tierra de Jauja (fair recording, romance, cancion comica, humor, song, farming work, lets go to the mountains where there is work and tortillas, atole, posole, food, employment, job); 2. Decima, En una redoma de oro (fair recording, in the golden flask, I carry a crystal almond to give to the cardinal bird when he cries,splendor of the Virgin Mary, day the redeemer Jesus was born, finest treasure, purity, grace, creation, the flask remains consecrated, religious song, Christianity); 3. Trovo del Viejo Vilmas (fair recording, song, ballad, poem, is cut short).

Manuel Esquibel, b. 1888, La Joya, NM. Trovo de un gringo y un mejicano (song, Mexican man on horse and Anglo American man on bicycle, on the road together, nice grass, suitcase, pretty fillies, young horses, fair recording, poem, ballad).

Casimiro Lujan, b. 1875, El Torreon, NM. Trovo del Viejo Vilmas (decima, duet, poem, sung in cannon, sun, wind, land).

Manuel A. Esquibel, b. 1888, La Joya, NM. Trovo del Viejo Vilmas (song, poem, first wine and bread, wind, fair recording).

Adelino Martinez, b. 1869, La Alameda, NM. (Poor recording). 1. Trovo del Viejo Vilmas; 2. Versos del Viejo Vilmas (recited, poetic jousts, rhyming verses, poems); 3. Datos personales (personal information, name, age); 4. Versos del Viejo Vilmas y el Negro poeta (recited, poetic jousting, poem, Vilmas and the black poet, search for passion, the strength of Samson, future, to build a temple, pilgrim, philosopher). (Here group talking together - Casimiro, Manuel and Adelino).

Filomeno Rivera, b. 1891, La Alameda, NM. (Fair to poor recording). 1. Datos personales (personal information, 57 years old, born in Las Vegas, NM); 2. Trovo del Viejo Vilmas (poetic jousts, one man asks for number and names of heavens and number of joints of bones of a Christian, second man replies 11 heavens, recites names, 300 bone joints and more, first man ask of the wind, birth of first woman and who consecrated first wine and bread, second man replies, Adam and Eve were created from the earth, Christ, etc.).

Leocadio Rael, Licadio Rael, b. 1878, Santa Barbara, Albuquerque, NM. El gorgojo (recited, children, rhyming verse, repeated twice, the grub, weevil, cricket, rat, thief, jury, fair to poor recording).

Ernie Orona, 1970: Anonymous female, Tome, NM. (Poor recording) 1. Nursery rhyme (children); 2. Adivinanza (humorous); 3. Children, game (she explains the game); 4. Conversacion; 5. El solterito (good to fair recording, song by request, the little single man, Colorado style, and recites one line from a funny song); 6. Verso (priest, rosary, prayer); 7. Adivinanzas (rhyming riddle, translation hat over hat, hat of rich cloth, you won't guess now, nor all year, the onion); 8. Las tres muchachitas (women, two were good, one was bad - didn't love the Virgin Mary, they each had a little lamb, one of the good girls killed her lamb and cleaned its entrails in the river, the bad girl killed her lamb and went to the river, the Virgin Mary appeared to her, speaker cannot remember the rest).

Anonymous female, Tome, NM. 1. Adivinanza (riddle about foam); 2. Conversacion (what does the word macho mean); 3. Adivinanza (riddle).

Anonymous female, Tome, NM. 1. Marquesotes (woman describes a recipe for this Salvadorian sweet pound cake, from El Salvador, sugar, flour, eggs, food, cooking); 2. Adivinanza (riddle, there was a good looking king, there is no carpenter that knows how to make you, only God with his great power, the body).

Dates

  • 1949, 1970

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
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