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Agur Jaunak: in Spanish “Salud Señores”, “Good Health to you”, is a Basque song which is sung at particular ceremonies to welcome someone recently arrived or to say goodbye to a friend, or to welcome a visitor as he/she deserves to be. It consists of a form of displaying honour and welcoming those present and the guests.

It comes from a popular Lapurdian melody for hunting and in its evolution has been adapted into other versions by multiple musicians. Jose Olaizola Gabarain was the author of the first and most well known version of Agur Jaunak. It was presented for the first time on the 1st August 1918 in the Sanctuary of Loyola for the festival of Saint Ignacious. It became popular at the celebration of the Congress of Basque Studies which took place in Oñati in September 1918. Despite all of this it is difficult to categorically state from where certain popular melodies originated, as José Luis Ansorena says, no language can brag that it has not been influenced by another; there is no songbook in the world which can boast absolute autonomy”. Ansorena has carried out two studies on the origins of some popular Basque melodies, including Agur Jaunak, and he has made a series of notes which are of great interest: He recounts the lines of a letter which the diplomat José Miguel Azaola wrote to him from Freiburg on the 22nd of August 1983: Regarding Agur Jaunak, I‘ll tell you what happened to me in Vienna in 1955. I was having dinner in the restaurant located in the wine cellar of the old imperial palace when the person who was enlivening the evening by playing the zither began to play a melody which was identical to that of this song. When he finished I approached him and asked what the origin of that music was. He told me that he could not say precisely, but that it was an ancient popular Viennese melody. I hummed Agur Jaunak to him, telling him that it was a Basque song and he told me that it was indeed the same. Antonio Peña y Goñi, a celebrated composer, musicologist and music and bullfighting critic and the founder of the Orfeón Donostiarra (San Sebastian concert choir), explained the origin of this song in a conference which was held in 1898 at the Madrid Press Association: “The Gipuzkoan Manuel Lecuona was a renowned pelota player and outstanding singer of bertso and guitarist, who divided his time between playing pelota and singing. After winning a match against a team of Frenchmen, a valiant young boy approached the victors and sang this song, which Urchalle (that was his nickname at the time) went on to incorporate into his repertoire, having understood that it was about requesting or offering a rematch”.

The translation to English of the song:

English:						Basque dialect: Good health Sirs					Agur Yaunak Good Health						Yaunak Agur Health ‘and a half’					Agur t´erdi

We all are God´s creation 				Danak Yainkoak eiñak gire You and us too					zuek eta bai gu ere

Good Health Sirs					Agur Yaunak, Good Health						Agur Health ‘and a half’					Agur t´erdi Here we are						Emen gire

Good Health Sirs					Agur Yaunak

The literal translation needs certain explanations from the original Basque words:

“Agur” is a Basque word that we can translate into English as “goodbye”. Although it is usually used to say goodbye it is also used to greet people.

“Jaunak” in the context of the song means, sir, men, individual of certain social stature, someone who deserves certain courtesy.

When you are appreciated a lot or you are held in great esteem or profound respect one says “Agur t´erdi” with a strange translation of “hello/goodbye ‘and a half’” which in the Basque Country is the highest of all greetings.

When we say “Hemen gire” which means “here we are”, we make reference to a feeling (Euskera, Basque, is a language of feelings…), and it says to us: here we are and we will continue here because it is our land, here we are to serve you.

Normally it is sung a capella in one or various voices and it is a custom that the audience stand up to hear this song.

Partiture: The work was written in ternario meter ¾. Its melody is a simple, unique tone; it basically moves over two chords (tonic and dominant).

Bibliography: Elhuyar Hiztegia, (euskara-gaztelania/castellano-vasco) Elhuyar K.E Usurbil 1996

Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia (www.euskomedia.org/aunamendi/7269)

“The procedence of some basque folk songs” by Jose Luis Ansorena Miranda Published in october of 1995, Txistulari, nº 164