The initiative seeks to return the “authentic lyrics” to the Galician Anthem The promoters allude to Castilianisms and ‘hyperenxebrismos’ They converse of “accumulation of errors” by totally different expressions
15,857 signatures have reached the Galician Parliament this Monday to assist the favored legislative initiative that asks to right the Galician Anthem for not faithfully adapting its lyrics to the unique poem written by Eduardo Pondal.
The initiative, whose promoters now contemplate strongly endorsed for Parliament to imagine it, was registered in November 2022 and obtained the inexperienced gentle earlier than the top of the 12 months for processing. Its processing required the presentation of not less than 10,000 signatures.
This widespread initiative invoice goals to “restore” the “dependable” textual content of the Galician Anthem, in order that “the brand new generations know, sing and interpret accurately” the unique lyrics.
The discussion board delivered as 15,857 signatures in assist of the ILP for the restoration of the dependable textual content of the Galician anthem,
👉 VÃa Galega e Galiza Cultura accepts that the Galician Parliament undertakes to reveal and popularize our full anthem, with its right textual content.
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– VIA GALEGA (@viagalega) May 8, 2023
The Galician Anthem combines the poem Os Pinos (1890) by Eduardo Pondal with a musical composition by Pascual Veiga. It was carried out for the primary time in 1907 in Havana, Cuba.
The promoters of the initiative defend that the interpretations over time of the anthem and its totally different written expressions have led to an accumulation of errors.
Specifically, within the explanatory assertion reference is made to Castilianisms and ‘hyperenxebrismos’ reminiscent of hoarse/rouco or iñorantes (it was written ignorant, within the authentic kind), in addition to the deturpation of the unique expression by a “means of textual trivialization, passing from ‘clan’ (village) to ‘chan’ (land).
Several makes an attempt to switch the textual content
It isn’t the primary try that’s carried out to attempt to accommodate the authorized textual content to the originality of the poem written by Eduardo Pondal since 1996, about in 2002 and in 2017-2018, as Ferreiro himself recalled within the dissemination of the initiative.
This initiative is promoted by round thirty individuals, together with the entities VÃa Galega and Galiza Cultura and the musicologist and researcher of the hymn’s rating, Fernado López-Acuña and Manuel Ferreiro, who offered a examine on the scenario.
The Galician anthem was the results of the correspondence between Eduardo Pondal and Pascual Veiga in 1890, during which the composer requested the author for a textual content for a rating for a contest during which the very best Galician anthem was to be chosen.
As acknowledged within the textual content produced by the fee that promotes modifying the anthem, Eduardo Pondal himself “was conscious of those textual distortions”, when in a letter dated January 11, 1913, he warned that “the textual content incorporates many errors”. however “sadly Pondal’s state of well being didn’t permit the corrective and restorative motion” that the promoters of this initiative keep that it’s time to perform.
The promoters argue that the letter authorized by the Official Gazette of Galicia in 1984 doesn’t embody the stanzas of the poem Os Pinos, however a “poor editorial model” made in 1935 on the centenary of the poet’s beginning.
The processing is determined by the PPdG
At the press convention this Monday, one of many spokespersons for the marketing fee, Anxo Louzao, highlighted that this proposal already had the endorsement of three provincial councils (A Coruña, Lugo and Ourense), whereas in Pontevedra an institutional declaration had not been potential.
Asked about this query and about whether or not they have noticed totally different views on the matter from the PPdeG, the celebration on which the processing of the initiative relies upon, Louzao replied that after assembly with the group and the president of the Chamber, Miguel Santalices from Ourense, there was no noticed a choice that has nonetheless been made, however has expressed hope that the proposal will lastly be processed.
In a subsequent press convention, when requested about it, the favored parliamentary spokesman, Pedro Puy, wished to be “prudent” and name consideration to the necessity for a broad consensus, “not solely political, however social.”
“The situation isn’t closed,” he acknowledged, to name for an in depth examine of the initiative earlier than deciding on one thing of “significance” such because the change within the legislation.
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