copla

This kind of theatre show, very common at the time (see ópera flamenca) was a musical with commonplace love stories set in Andalusian or gypsy context and their musical pieces were usually a mixture of Spanish popular song called copla andaluza or canción española.

WeLove-music xulio 2010

Notable among the books was a first edition of his earliest published poems, four redondillas, a copla and an elegy, on the death,

Shakespeare and Precious Stones Treating of the Known References of Precious Stones in Shakespeare's Works, with Comments as to the Origin of His Material, the Knowledge of the Poet Concerning Precious Stones, and References as to Where the Precious Stones of His Time Came from George Frederick Kunz

Señor Don Eugenio de Olavarria-y Huarte, in citing this _copla_ (_Folklore de Madrid_), points out that it contains the very essence of folklore, since it gives a perfectly true account of the battle of Alcoléa.

Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin

All the able-bodied women who had not come out to meet us were sitting before the doors of their white houses, making lace mantillas and flounces for the young Queen-elect, — Torralba is famous for its lace-makers, — and they waved work-worn hands as we ran by, wishing us good speed, or throwing an improvised _copla_ after the vanishing Gloria.

The Car of Destiny Armand [Illustrator] Both 1901

The voice of some maid servant singing a _copla_ waked me early in the morning, after an hour or two of sleep.

The Car of Destiny Armand [Illustrator] Both 1901

The _copla de arte mayor_ is a stanza of eight such lines, usually having the rime-scheme _abbaacca_.

Modern Spanish Lyrics 1899

The most serious and the most successful attempt appears in the use of the _copla de arte mayor_ in the fifteenth century.

Modern Spanish Lyrics 1899

Sólo á veces, con un dejo de zozobra y de ansiedad, timido tiembla en sus labios un viejo y triste cantar, copla que vibre en el aire como un toque funeral:

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

Pray drink; for I must now run home to fetch my pajandi to play my brethren a tune, and sing a copla.

The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842

Pray drink; for I must now run home to fetch my pajandi to play my brethren a tune, and sing a copla.

The Bible in Spain 1712