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The endecha (often used in the plural endechas [1] ) is a subgenre of lament, planto, found in early Iberian music. [2] It usually indicates a metrical composition of 4 lines with 6 or 7 syllables. [3] The endecha is essentially a musical form; a hexasyllable.

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The verb endechar - to lament, to sing endechas, is rarely encountered, [4] though found in testimonies by Alfonso de Palencia. It comes from the time before the Expulsion of 1492, and was used within the Jewish community, [5] though popular poems in Galicia already used this type of versification. [6] [7]

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References

  1. Jack Sage and Susana Friedmann (2001). "Endechas". Grove Music Online (8th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-1-56159-263-0.
  2. Diccionario de la lengua española © 2005 Espasa-Calpe: endecha :1. f. Canción triste o de lamento. ♦ Más en pl.
  3. 2. Composición métrica de cuatro versos de seis o siete sílabas, generalmente asonantados.
  4. endechar "(De endecha); V de la 1ª conjugación; regular (modelo: cantar). 1. (intr.) Cantar endechas en honor de los difuntos. 2. (intr. pronominal) [Uso figurado] Afligirse o lamentarse: ahora el mal ya está hecho y no sirve de nada endecharse. Sinónimos Llorar, plañir, afligirse, condolerse, entristecerse, lamentarse. Antónimos Alegrarse, reír. ( 1)[Literatura] Endechar.
  5. Naxos
  6. R. O. Jones, Pedro M. Cátedra Siglo de oro: prosa y poesía 1983 ...por otra parte, ya los poemas populares de Galicia utilizan este tipo de versificación,
  7. Manuel Alvar, Endechas judeo-españolas, Granada, 1953