Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexico and the Southwest: A Self-Portrait of a People

B: Song Literature of the Villages

B. SONG LITERATURE OF THE VILLAGES One striking feature of village life in the Southwest is the corpus of songs that circulate in a particular region telling of well-known local characters and noteworthy local events both recent and remote. It is easy to identify the narrative poems such as the corrido and the indita, for they are written in a factual way with special attention to dates and often to places. With some exceptions I believe these facts are reliable; in many cases I have verified them. I have omitted from this table many wellknown corridas dealing with places in Mexico. Many of these also circulate in the Southwest. For ritual and social dance tunes from various villages, see Sections W and X. Title Source Subject Date Alia en Arizona Indita de Ricardo (Composed by "Ricardo" El Merino ARIZONA (C65) Homesickness Undated Canyon del Diablo (Ila) Loss of a flock 1899 of sheep Tucson (B36) Racehorse Undated Y0 Me Voy para California Joaquin Murieta CALIFORNIA (D38) (B35) Travel Racial strife Undated 1850 Indita of Amarante Martinez (Composed by LeandroLucero) COLORADO Pagosa Springs (F2) Automobile death 1926 Los Reenganchados a Kansas KANSAS (129) Mexican day labor Undated Carlos Briley (Composed by Boleslo Gallegos, grandfather of the deceased) NEW MEXICO Albuquerque (B26) A drowning 1955 860 Title SONG LITERATURE OF THE VILLAGES Source Subject Date Adios de Fernandez Gallegos Words composed by Boleslo Gallegos, father of the deceased. The tune by the singer, Mary InezJaramillo) Lucila Ramirez Albuquerque (Composed by Vincent Saucedo) Aho de 1837 Corrido de la Muerte de Antonio Maestas (Composed by Higinio V. Gonzales) Los Chimayoses Aho de 1895, or Tedfilo Vigil Cochiti Indita de Celestino Segura Federico Chavez La Indita Funebre Indita de Manuel B. Otero Cuando de Pecos, or Cuando de los Galisteos Indita de Manuelito Toribio Huertas La Vaca del Condado Corrido de Wingate (C76) Accidental death Undated (B29) Murder (C89) Praise of city Bernalillo (E23) Disorder in New Mexico Canjilon (117) Death of a cowboy Chimayo (C87) (16) Cochiti (C86) Cuba (12) A lost shepherd (B32) Murder Estancia (F6) Death in a land dispute (F7) Galisteo (HI) Rooster pull Gallina Springs (F9) Death of Indian chief Las Cruces (Bll) A hanging Leyva (D17) Spoils system (123) Freightingby wagon 861 1948 1960 1837 1889 1895 Undated 1883 1883 June 24,1875 Undated April 26,1801 (probably 1901) Undated Undated Title HISPANIC FOLK MUSIC Source Subject Date Indita de Jose Luis Indita de Manzano Andres Mora y Lola Chavez (Composed by Luisito Antonio Sanchez) (Probably from Moriarty, cf. FTR 5/31/63) Cuando de 1905 Manzano, Valencia County (F4) Death of beloved musician (F3) Death of beloved musician Moriarty (B31) Murder Indita de Jesus Maria Sanchez (Composed by Ramon Barbua) Cuando de Pecos Ruben Leyva Corrido de Jose Apodaca San Marcial (Words by Ramon Luna, music by EddieGallegos) Santa Fe (Composed by Vincent Saucedo) Luisito Nunez Carlos Saiz Indita del 1884 Indita de Cleofas Griego Pedro Sandoval Mosquero (H2) A pest of insects Padilla (F5) Death of a shepherd Pecos (Hla) A rooster pull Rivera (B18) Death at a dance San Antonio, Bernalillo County (B55) A dancer San Marcial (B52) A flood Santa Fe (C88) Praise of city Silver City (B7) A hanging Socorro (BIO) A hanging Tome (F19) A flood (F21) Loss of flock of sheep Truchas (B34) Suicide Undated Undated 1917 1905 1901 June 24,1875 Februarys, Undated August 20,1929 1970 1895 January 11,1907 1884 September 10, June 21, 862 SONG LITERATURE OF THE VILLAGES La Enfermedad de los Frios (Various towns in New Mexico) La Indita Vagabunda El Contrabando de El Paso Gregorio Cortes Luis Arcos Undated Undated Miscellaneous (D7) (F14) A catalogue of New Mexico and other place names TEXAS El Paso (B47) Lament of a captured ca. 1919 bootlegger Laredo Area (B49) Praise of an outlaw Unspecified (B4) An execution November 6,1930 863 ...