Knowing Venezuelan traditional-popular music. Today's song: Amar al mar (Love the sea)
It is a pleasure for me to reference, in this opportunity, a traditional-popular musical form that has been very little promoted, disseminated and interpreted in the Venezuelan context, it is the form that is known as Jota Antillean which is part of the variants of the great genre of the Venezuelan Oriental Jota.
In general, Jota is synonymous with traditional Spanish singing and dancing. Along with the Fandango and the Malagueña, the Jota acquired renown throughout the Spanish geography and adopted multiple toponimics variants. Different origins are attributed to the Jota, but most scholars of this musical form coincide in locating this type of music and dance as born in Aragon, where it was dispersed to acquire national recognition.
With the passing of the years and in the times of the American conquest, the Aragonese Jota made its leap to the Caribbean and upon arriving to the Venezuelan coasts it remains in the Venezuelan east, place where it loses its dance force to seduce the poetic soul of the sailors singers. There he acquires, perhaps because of the wise knowledge given by improvisation and the proper use of language, an unparalleled literary beauty from the use of the copla, to construct eight musical phrases in sixteen bars, testifying in his melodic lament the wisdom of the popular folk.
In Venezuela there are different types of Jacks and in the eastern area we can find a characteristic traditional type directly linked to the Antillean islands. It is the Jota Antillean that is played in Sucre State and, the one we are referring to in this musical field, which presumes its African descent by acquiring a particular cheerful rhythm that is determined, in most cases, by the tambora and, in this in particular, yielded to the Cuatro. In most cases, in this type of Jota, the controversy between the singers announces a refrain pent syllable (5 syllables), with lalaleos and improvised verses, sung in duo.
On the other hand, this musical form has a pre-established harmonic rhythm so that, without more or less, singers and poets inscribe their lyrics in these predetermined schemes.
In this way, the people recreate themselves in these musical forms thus consolidating the cultural identity that links us with the direct background of the popular Spanish songbook that arrived in these lands with the conquering wave.
In the Sucre State - Venezuela - this type of cheerful Jota is very well known, such is the case of this one, entitled "Amar al mar". It is a song whose lyrics are performed by a duo by the author of it, Iván Pérez Rossi with Gualberto Ibarreto. I hope it will please you all.
Estelio Padilla
Song title: Amar al mar
Musical Genre: Jota Oriental - Venezuelan
Musical form: Jota Antillean (Sucre State)
Author of the lyrics: Iván Pérez Rossi
Music: from the Venezuelan Folklore
Performers: Gualberto Ibarreto and Iván Pérez Rossi
Mandolin: David Moreira
Cuatro and Guitar: Miguel Ángel Bosch
Estelio Padilla
Love the sea
Voice 1
My life is to love the sea
At sea I know I miss you (bis)
In the sea, I remember you
Even if you stop loving me (bis)
Voice 2
My love marches adrift
On the waves of the sea (bis)
What has helped me love?
If you are not in my life (bis)
Voice 1
Blue your laughter and the sky
Blue the color of the sea (bis)
Blue your laughter and the sky
Blue is your two stars
They do not want to look at me (bis)
Voice 2
Pain and suffering
With you love and love (bis)
Pain and suffering
With you always wanting
With you the sky and the sea (bis)
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