El llibre de l'organista Jayme Adrobau. Breda (1826-1844)

Organ notebooks usually include fashionable pieces one can dance to or paraliturgical dances that were played within free passages of Christmas vespers. But in the present notebook, most of the pieces are what we nowadays would call folkloric or traditional. It includes many songs, some of them easy to recognize by means of lyrics collected at a later date, coples, corrandes and caramelles… All this material, together with anti-French songs of the time, the paraliturgical vocal pieces as the great “Germans amantíssims” –whose lyrics remind us of sibyl songs– or the great closing Christmas carol give us a sonorous image of the early XIX century Breda. The music included in this notebook was the one, which was sung habitually: a picture of this time’s song. On the other hand, the passades for flabiol [flageolet] or bagpipe, the contrapassos, the sardanas and plain dances, the quintains’ march, the giants’ dance or the barbers’ and orchards’ dances tell us which instruments were played outside the church, how they were played and with which function.