This video of this song from Cuba came from a performance of the Nashville Early Music Ensemble at Christ Church Cathedral in Downtown Nashville, TN on Tuesday, December 4. The Concert was entitled Feliz Navidad Canciónes de América Latina. The ensemble is designed to perform the vocal and instrumental music of the Medieval and Renaissance periods as well as traditional folk music from several world cultures. The twenty-member ensemble features musicians with diverse music backgrounds but all with experience in early music. The instruments featured in the concert will be viols, violin, rebec, lute, ud, guitars, psaltery, harp, recorders, and a wide variety of percussion. The director is Dr. Gerald Moore, a retired music professor from Lipscomb University, who taught music theory and directed the Lipscomb Early Music Consort for over twenty-five years. For more information on the NEME, visit their website at http://nashvilleearlymusic.blogspot.com/
So much better than the fripping Cheetah Girls...ugh. This is how it should be.
TheImmortalMuffins 4 months ago
No amigo-a, veja que no sec. 18 ele já era popular entre o povo, a ponto de ser proibido pelo clero, por não ser cantado em latim, cito: "devido ao seu carácter pouco solene que o Vilancico veio a ser criticado por alguns setores do clero e da nobreza tendo sido interdito, por decreto de D. João II, em 1720."
Historiadores consideram que o Vilancico seja anterior, do fim da época medieval sim, pois era comum na musica portuguesa e espanhola antes mesmo da chegada ao novo mundo.
spiu08 2 years ago
No amigo-a, la letra original (y la música) es de Segundo Cueva Celi, un compositos ecuatoriano de la ciudad de Loja. En realidad dice: ruiseñor que en la SELVA cantando llora...
Feliz navidad para usted
elufologo 2 years ago
Actually this is a villancico (christmas carol) from the 20th century, by the Ecuadorian (Ecuador) composer Segundo Cueva Celi. Feliz Navidad
elufologo 2 years ago
Clever i like it!
LocoNativoz 2 years ago
Love this soooooong.
Chishannicon 2 years ago
ps: ruiseñor, no riseñor jejeje xP
mividomuak 3 years ago
pz lo zierto esq la cancion no dice: niña...dice: mi jesus...y otra cosa esq la canción original no dice ruiseñor q en la selva...dice: risueñor q en la hierva cantando iora...
mividomuak 3 years ago
the music kinda sounds like Harry Potter music.
skittlesismyname 3 years ago
Beleza e eternidade da música; criação divina!
Da época medieval, o melhor eram as músicas.
spiu08 3 years ago