Nani Nani (Sephardic Lullaby) with lyrics ~ Hadass Pal-Yarden

This romansa represents the story in a dialogue between a woman and her treacherousb husband who returns at nights from his lover. While putting her son to sleep she is revealing her sorrow to him and tells about the deeds of his father. Nani Nani sometimes starts also with the text: durmete mi alma, durmete mi vista [sleep my soul, sleep my life] and often has a refrain muevo amor, muevo dolor (new love, new pain). Its origin is an old romance of Hispanic Christian origin.
This lullaby has melodic parallels in Turkish and Greek cultures and carries melismatic, non-metric, musical characteristics. A related melody refers also to another romansa which deals with a queen who finds her lost sister (Hermana reina y cuativa): two sisters who were captive during the Reconquista, brought together again, one as a Moorish queen and the other as a Christian slave. When they both gave birth on the same day, the queen recognized her sister by the lullaby she sang and by her birthmark.
/Yahudice Hadass Pal-Yarden

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• jewish
• sephardic
• ladino
• lullaby
• romansa
• romance
• Hadass
• Pal-Yarden
• music

[dankodori]

Hadass Pal is a Hungarian name :)

[hit004541]

@dankodori the name Hadass is a jewish name meaning myrtle tree :) But maybe the last name Pal has hungarian connections??

[baklavaciyan]

İ'm from turkey , it is not turkish.. but this music entstrument like to nay ( nay is a turkish entstrumen )

[hit004541]

@baklavaciyan yes it is not a Turkish song I'm aware of it but this song is sung among Sephardi Jews all over the world including and especially Turkey... You probably know that in your country they say Ninni Ninni but sephardis say Nani Nani :)

[dumnorkevi]

i just searched it now. its a moroccan song! not greece or turkey like it says. its obvious they dont talk spanish in greece and tukey. maby u should change the information tank you.......?!

[hit004541]

@dumnorkevi No it is not moroccan, there are jewish sephardic communitys also in turkey and greece who speak ladino. Please read the information closely

[msfcabrita]

This is in ladino! And i can understand the most of it, because i'm portuguese.

[tonyfrenkel]

J'ai 66 ans et ma grande mere qui etait nee a Rodhes nous chantais cette berceuse pour nous endormire....c'est tres emouvant j'en aie les larmes aux yeux....c'est en Ladino-Judeo Espagnol....merci

[catsalwayswin]

@msfcabrita i can understand all of it and im mexican ,and i can understand some portuguese because its similar to spanish

[crayonplane]

This is really prettylike a cloud time lapse with music

[inmysimpleheart]

That was absolutely gorgeous.  The duduk really rips at my heartstrings. I found this from looking up "Durme, Durme", and have found a whole slew of lullabies of the same cultures. Thanks for sharing!

[bobbypatz]

@hit004541 im from sephardic jew ancestry i have just known it, i live in spain but my surname was changed because of the official religion of my country at the time

[cyrano2cyrano]

don't change any info in your screen or do any other thing too alter any info. This very piece is your upload to the net and u have the title to put what ever u feel to put. Now that being said, I am from Symrna/Izmir. Grew up with many many jewish neighbours all my child hood. No matter the language listen to the tune. Enough with the tags we need to carry on with us.It has the midd east touch that was churned up with grief,agony,tear,seperation,pa­in. The whole geography is filled with pain.

[jechida1]

very beautiful rendition of this well known song!