Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
corpulento laúd
English translation:
portly lute / big-bodied lute
Spanish term
corpulento laúd
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Charles Davis
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Proposed translations
portly lute / big-bodied lute
It is from stanza 1228:
"El corpudo alaút, que tyen' punto á la trisca"
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16625/16625-h/ii.html
Or in a more modern spelling:
"El corpudo laud que tiene punto a la trisca".
I have cited the latter from a study by one of the great experts on the subject, James T. Monroe or the University of California, Berkeley, who offers this translation:
"The portly lute accompanies a rustic dance"
James T. Monroe, "Arabic Literary Elements in the Structure of the Libro de buen amor (I)", Al-Qantara, 332 (2011): 27-70 (p. 31).
http://al-qantara.revistas.csic.es/index.php/al-qantara/arti...
But a number of people have translated this. The trouble is that the translations are mostly not available online. However, another occurs in a PhD dissertation on the guitar:
"The big-bodied lute keeping tempo"
https://myslide.es/documents/the-musicologist-behind-the-com...
"Corpulent lute" would be OK if you prefer.
And "fat-bellied" would be right according to the notes in the Clásicos Castellanos, which describe the "corpudo alaut" as an "instrumento de cuerdas arábigo, panzudo"
https://books.google.es/books?id=AQ5QRqSLG4MC&pg=PT598&lpg=P...
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Chema Nieto Castañón
: I like portly lute in spite of the meanings added. Also stout ("bulky in body"). That is the idea anyhow. Saludos! // :))
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Thanks, Chema! I like it too: gordo, en buen romance :-)
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philgoddard
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Thanks, Phil :-)
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Discussion
con muchos instrumentos salen los atambores. Allí sale gritando la guitarra morisca, De voz aguda y áspera en sus notas; El corpulento laúd que acompaña la danza trisca; La guitarra latina con estos se junta.