Malagueña Salerosa
Not to be confused with
Malagueña (song), the sixth movement of the Suite Andalucia by Ernesto Lecuona.
Malagueña Salerosa also known as La Malagueña is a well-known Son Huasteco or Huapango song from Mexico, which has been covered by many performers.
The song is that of a man telling a woman (from Málaga, Spain) how beautiful she is, and how he would love to be her man, but that he understands her rejecting him for being too poor.
Malagueña Salerosa is attributed to Elpidio Ramírez[1] and Pedro Galindo,[2] published by Peer International in 1947[3] (monitored by BMI), although Mexican composer Nicandro Castillo[4] questions the validity of that authorship.[5] As he mentions:
"Composer don Nicandro [Castillo] wrote that several tunes from la Huasteca which were known as huapango songs composed by Elpidio Ramírez, Roque Ramírez and Pedro Galindo, were actually anonymous songs, as was the case of Cielito Lindo (Son Huasteco) and La Malagueña, which in reality, like La Guasanga or El Sacamandú, where known many years before, and should be part of the public domain. "
Many have recorded and played this song, in particular Conjunto huastecos, Mariachis and Bolero Trios. But the most famous version was made by Miguel Aceves Mejía with a mariachi band. With Huapangos or Son Huastecos, the falsetto technique is used to great effect, as in David Záizar's version. So too many different editions of the song feature vocal gymnastics by whoever sings them, particularly the stretching of vowels such as the "e" sound in the gentillic 'Malagueña' for as long as the singer can hold the note. Other known mariachi versions of the song were recorded by
Conjunto huastecos that have played this song include,
- Los Camperos de Valles,
- Trio Chicontepec,
- Trio resplandor huasteco, and
- Conjunto de Juan Reynoso
Bolero trio versions were recorded by
This song became known internationally and has been recorded by such non-Mexican artists as
Notes and references
- ^ See Elpidio Ramírez at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ See the "Soundtrack" section of Pedro Galindo at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ "Elpidio Ramírez - La Malaguena Sheet Music". http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0036473.
- ^ Nicandro Castillo (1914 – 1990): "El Hidalguense", "Las Tres Huastecas", "El Cantador", "La Calandria", "Sueño", "El Alegre", "El Huasteco Enamorado", "Fiesta Huasteca", "El Gavilán Tamaulipeco", and "Mi huejutla"
- ^ Trejo, Ángel. "El huapango resucitó y vive una de sus mejores etapas: Enrique Rivas Paniagua" (in Spanish). México D.F.: Conaculta. Archived from the original on 2004-06-12. http://web.archive.org/web/20040612081256/http://www.conaculta.gob.mx/saladeprensa/2003/12ago/nicandro.htm. Retrieved 2009-09-28. "El tema es controvertido porque en dichas páginas [compositor hidalguense] don Nicandro [Castillo] escribió que varios sones huastecos que en las décadas pasadas fueron conocidos como huapangos compuestos por Elpidio Ramírez, Roque Ramírez y Pedro Galindo fueron en realidad sones anónimos -como fue el caso de Cielito Lindo y La Malagueña, que al igual que La Guasanga o El Sacamandú, eran del dominio público- escritos mucho antes « que se construyera la Catedral de Huejutla »."
Translation: "The issue is controversial because in these pages, [hidalguense composer] don Nicandro Castillo wrote that several tunes from la Huasteca which in decades past were known as huapangos, composed by Elpidio Ramírez, Roque Ramírez and Pedro Galindo, were actually anonymous songs, as was the case of Cielito Lindo and La Malagueña, which like La Guasanga or El Sacamandú, were in the public domain, written “long before the construction of the Cathedral of Huejutla”."
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