As Andrew pointed "murguista" is a member of a carnival group called "murga" that sings ironical songs changing the lyrics of well known music. The proposal is to criticize the government or anything they consider it deserves a critic. In Tenerife they play kazoos and percussion, but in Cadiz they play also guitars and they are called "chirigotas"
By extension the term "murguista" is applied to people who are in the streets doing noise very late at night. You say "No me des la murga" to some one who is bothering you. Anyway the word is not common at all. Hope it helped! Javier Ruiz, compositor C/ El Lomo, 5 1º-2 38280 Tegueste Santa Cruz de Tenerife (ESPAÑA) Teléfono: 922 54 29 31 (casa) 616 95 93 94 (móvil) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Can you please help? I have a print of two musicians called " Murguistas" > which was painted by D.Belgrano in the early 18 hundreds. > I am unable to find out what the title of the print means. Can you enlighten > me? > > Many thanks............... Margaret Ward > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
