Genre Folk music Language Catalan | Writer(s) Traditional | |
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English title The Child of the Mother | ||
El Noi de la Mare (The Child of the Mother) is a traditional Catalan Christmas song. The song was made famous outside Spain by Andrés Segovia who used to perform Miguel Llobet's guitar transcription as an encore.
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Lyrics
The main stanza has four verses and begins mostly with Què li darem a n'el Noi de la Mare? In some traditional ways of singing the song every pair of verses is repeated twice. The first stanza of a common version is:
Variants
The text exists in other slightly different variants.
Classical vocal arrangements have been made by Joaquín Nin-Culmell for soprano and John Rutter for choir.
Recordings
References
El Noi de la Mare Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA