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Thread #18417 Message #2269245
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
22-Feb-08 - 12:58 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: El Condor Pasa (in Spanish or Portuguese)
Subject: RE: El Condor Pasa
These are the 1913 lyrics by the Huanuqueño composer Daniel Alomías Robles, which he composed in the Quechuan language as well as Castillian Spanish. They were incorporated in the zarzuela by Julio Baudouin y Paz, as noted above. The music, the arrangement originally by B. y P. and Robles, is based on an Andean tune, but is not wholly folk.
They were posted by Escamillo 22 Feb 00, above, but the arrangement of the text is somewhat confusing.
Philip Jacobs spelling of the Quechua (Runasimipi), linked in a previous post, is more correct, but not as understandable as the slightly Hispanicized spelling in the words below: