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“Soedades”  is a musical arrangement created for Our Partiteka (A Nosa Partiteka) from two traditional melodies collected in the Cancioneiro Musical de Galicia (Pontevedra Museum and Barrié de la Maza Foundation).
The Cancioneiro Musical de Galicia was compiled by the Galician folklore researcher and musicologist Casto Sampedro e Folgar between 1848 and 1924.
It was published in 1942 by Xosé Filgueira Valverde (director of the Pontevedra Museum), who ordered and transcribed the files left handwritten by Casto Sampedro.

The songbook (cancioneiro) is divided into 3 parts:
- chants: profane chants (alalás, muiñeiras con letra, cantos de pandeiro, cantos de
berce, aradas, espadeladas, cantos de arrieiros, seitura, regueifa, maios, cantares de cego, romances...) and religious songs.
- dances: dances (preludios, muiñeiras, ribeirás, golpes, carballesas, redondas, chouteira, xota e fandango), danzas e farsas (de espadas, damas e cabaleiros, palillos, cintas...).
- varias: tocatas varias (alboradas, marchas de procesións, pasacorredoiras) e curiosidades.

The musical arrangement "Soedades" has two melodies taken from the famous songbook:
- muiñeira with lyrics number 33, song collected in Ulla (Pontevedra).
Its lyrics are about the homesick for the village where he/she was born and the love left when he/she had to emigrate. It has the characteristic rhythm of the muiñeira, ternary subdivision 6/8 and happy and danceable tempo.                                                                                                                                           
- ribeirá number 332, dance collected in Pontevedra.
A "ribeirana" is a "muiñeira vella", the oldest form of muiñeira.
The musical accompaniment of this dance is always done with singing (verses) and tambourines played with the fist, which is why it is also called
muiñeira empuñada, thus distinguishing its touch from the most modern way of playing, the muiñeira riscada.

 Wikipedia e Cancioneiro Musical de Galiciaextract & translation