UN SARAO DE LA CHACONA (Chacona: A la vida bona) - Juan Arañés (15?? - 1649)

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UN SARAO DE LA CHACONA (También conocida por el título "Chacona: A la vida bona") - Juan Arañés (15?? - 1649).
("Libro Segundo de Tonos y Villancicos a uno, dos, tres y quatro voces. Con la Cifra de la Guitarra Española a la usanza Romana" - Roma, 1624).

Intérpretes: La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Hespérion XXI - Director: Jordi Savall.
Imágenes: Pinturas barrocas.


Letra:

Un sarao de la chacona
se hizo el mes de las rosas,
hubo millares de cosas
y la fama lo pregona:
A la vida, vidita bona,
vida, vámonos a chacona.

Porque se casó Almadán,
se hizo un bravo sarao,
dançaron hijas de Anao
con los nietos de Milán.
Un suegro de Don Beltrán
y una cuñada de Orfeo,
començaron un guineo
y acabólo una macona.
Y la fama lo pregona:
A la vida, vidita bona,
vida, vámonos a chacona.

Salió la cabalagarda
con la mujer del encenque,
y de Çamora el palenque
con la pastora Lisarda.
La mezquina donna Albarda,
trepó con pasta [a] Gonzalo,
y un ciego dió con un palo,
tras de la braga lindona.
Y la fama lo pregona:
A la vida, vidita bona,
vida, vámonos a chacona.

Salió el médico Galeno
con chapines y corales,
y cargado de atabales,
el manso Diego Moreno.
El engañador Vireno
salió tras la traga malla,
y l'amante de Cazalla
con una moça de Arjona.
Y la fama lo pregona:
A la vida, vidita bona,
vida, vámonos a chacona.

Salió Ganasca y Cisneros,
con sus barbas chamuscadas,
y dándose bofetadas
Anajarte y Oliberos.
Con un satal de torteros,
salió Esculapio el doctor
y la madre del amor,
puesta la ley de Bayona.
Y la fama lo pregona:
A la vida, vidita bona,
vida, vámonos a chacona.

Salió la Raza y la traza
todas tomadas de orín,
y danzando un matachín
el Oñate y la Viaraza.
Entre la Raza y la traza
se levantó tan gran lid,
que fue menester que el Zid,
que bailase una chacona.
Y la fama lo pregona:
A la vida, vidita bona,
vida, vámonos a chacona.

Salió una carga de Aloe
con todas sus sabandijas,
luego, bendiendo alelixas,
salió la grulla en un pie.
Un africano sin fe,
un negro y una gitana,
cantando la dina dana
y el negro la dina dona.
Y la fama lo pregona:
A la vida, vidita bona,
vida, vámonos a chacona.

Entraron treinta Domingos
con veinte lunes a cuestas,
y cargó con es[as] zestas,
un asno dando respingos.
Juana con tingo lo[s] mingos,
salió las bragas enjutas,
y más de quarenta putas
huiendo de Barcelona.
Y la fama lo pregona:
A la vida, vidita bona,
vida, vámonos a chacona.



La chacona es una danza en tres tiempos de origen hispanoamericano que, a través de España, se difundió por Europa durante el siglo XVII. La chacona desarrollaba un tema melódico al que se aplicaban variaciones en el bajo (basso ostinato). Su origen alegre y vivaz evolucionó en el siguiente siglo a una danza más cadenciosa.


Juan Arañés (15?? - 1649), compositor español, autor del "Libro Segundo de Tonos y Villancicos a uno, dos, tres y quatro voces. Con la Cifra de la Guitarra Española a la usanza Romana", publicado en Roma, en 1624.

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chacona

http://books.google.es/books?id=WCLTKd_n4wYC&pg=PA128&lpg=PA128&d...

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  • Heard this in Borgias yesterday. Amazing song.

  • @Alagnapassion I'm working on it. Spanish is my mother tongue, but this is harder than it looks because many of these words aren't used anymore, or changed their meaning.

    Meanwhile, i can tell you what it is about. It talks about strange things that happened in a party: Two guys fighting, there was a crane, a faithless African... and more than 40 whores fleeing from Barcelona :D

    There even was such a big quarrel that Spain's national hero (El Cid) had to intervene : )

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  • Favourite song ever! So many versions to choose from, this is one of the very best!

  • @Alagnapassion Sorry, I forgot the refrain:

    and The Fame peddles it;

    to the good life (?);

    my dear, let's go to the Chacona;

    I hope you can enjoy it better now that you know what it says : )

  • @Alagnapassion a black [male] and a gypsy [female], singing the "dina dana" and the black [male] the "dina dona". [refrain] Thirty Sundays came in with twenty Mondays on their backs, and carrying these baskets, a donkey kicking. Juana with [no idea] the dry [female underwear] came out, (???!) and more than forty whores, fleeing from Barcelona. [refrain] NOTE: Remember, this song was composed in the 17th Century. I'm a native speaker but it contains several archaisms.
  • @Alagnapassion The Raza (lit: race, as in biology. A name?) and the forgery came out wholly covered in rust, and a matachin [was] dancing the Oñate and the Viaraza. [popular dances?] Between the Raza and the forgery there was such a [big] quarrel, that it was necessary for The Cid, to dance a Chacona. [refrain] A shipment of Aloe sailed with all its vermins, then, selling porridge, a crane came out [standing] on a leg. A faithless African,
  • @Alagnapassion Galen the medic came out, with [female footwear] and corals, and overloaded with (small) drums, the meek Diego Moreno. Vireno the scammer went after the glutton, and Cazalla's lover with a girl from Arjona. [refrain] Ganasca and Cisneros came out, with their beards scorched, and slapping one another, Anajarte and Oliberos. With a [no idea], Esculapio the doctor came out and the mother of love, ready the Law of Bayona [an old punishment method] [refrain]
  • @Alagnapassion First of all, I'm terribly sorry for the late response. I had some personal issues :/ Now here's the thing: "A chacona party, was thrown in the month of the roses, thousands of things happened; [refrain] When Almadán got married, a wild party was thrown, Anao's daughters danced; with Milán's grandsons. One of Don Beltrán's in-laws (one?); and Orfeo's sister in law; started a guineo, and an amazon finished it. [refrain]
  • @Tanathos474 This would not surprise me. Other famous music in Europe (the Follia, for example, may be influenced by the sarabanda from Central America) was influenced by the New World. We usually think of the New World being influenced by Europe exclusively, but even hundreds of years ago the New World exported its culture.

  • Exquisito!

  • @carlmalmberg I disagree with you. It is true that this piece has some similarities with the argentine chacarera, but "Chaco" is a quichua (the languagge Incaic tribes spoke) word wich means "large flat land". Some other sources tell that the chacona was in fact born in Mexico.

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