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Emotional feel similar to "bitter sweet"

Saudade (,^[1] European Portuguese: [sɐwˈðaðɨ], Brazilian Portuguese: [sawˈdad(ʒ)i], Galician: [sawˈðaðɪ]; plural saudades)^[2] is a deep emotional state of cornball or profound melancholic longing for something or someone that one cares for and/or loves. Moreover, information technology ofttimes carries a repressed cognition that the object of longing might never be had again. It is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places, or events that once brought excitement, pleasance, and well-beingness, which at present trigger the senses and make i feel the hurting of separation from those joyous sensations. Saudade describes a feeling both happy and sad, and could exist approximated by the English expression 'bitter sweet'.

Nascimento and Meandro (2005)^[3] cite Duarte Nunes Leão's definition of saudade: "Memory of something with a desire for it."

In Brazil, the day of Saudade is officially historic on 30 Jan.^{[4] [five]}

History [edit]

The afar lands of the Portuguese Empire made a special longing for the loved ones of explorers and sailors

Saudade ultimately derives from the Latin solitās, solitātem, pregnant "confinement". The word saudade was used in the Cancioneiro da Ajuda (13th century), in the Cancioneiro da Vaticana and by poets of the time of King Denis of Portugal^[six] (reigned 1279–1325). Some specialists argue that the word may have originated during the Smashing Portuguese Discoveries, expressing and giving pregnant to the sadness felt about those who departed on journeys to unknown seas and oft disappeared in shipwrecks, died in boxing, or simply never returned. Those who stayed behind—mostly women and children—suffered securely in their absence. However, the Portuguese discoveries only started in 1415, and since the discussion has been institute in earlier texts, this does not constitute a very skilful explanation. The Reconquista besides offers a plausible caption.^{[ citation needed ]}

The state of mind has subsequently become a "Portuguese mode of life": a constant feeling of absence, the sadness of something that's missing, contemplative longing for completeness or wholeness and the yearning for the render of what is at present gone, a desire for presence equally opposed to absence—as it is said in Portuguese, a strong want to matar as saudades (lit. to kill the saudades).

In the latter half of the 20th century, saudade became associated with the longing for one's homeland, as hundreds of thousands of Portuguese-speaking people left in search of better futures in South America, Northward America, and Western Europe. As well the implications derived from a wave of emigration trend from the motherland, historically speaking saudade is the term associated with the decline of Portugal'southward role in world politics and merchandise. During the and then-called "Gold Age", synonymous with the era of discovery, Portugal rose to the status of a world power, and its monarchy became ane of the richest in Europe. Only with the contest from other European nations, the state went both colonially and economically into a prolonged period of decay. This menses of decline and resignation from the globe'south cultural stage marked the rise of saudade, aptly described past a sentence in Portugal'southward national canticle: Levantai hoje de novo o esplendor de Portugal (Lift upwards once over again today the splendour of Portugal).

Definition [edit]

The Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa defines saudade (or saudades) every bit "A somewhat melancholic feeling of incompleteness. Information technology is related to thinking back on situations of privation due to the absence of someone or something, to movement away from a place or thing, or to the absenteeism of a set up of item and desirable experiences and pleasures once lived."^[vii]

The Lexicon from the Majestic Galician Academy, on the other hand, defines saudade as an "intimate feeling and mood acquired past the longing for something absent-minded that is being missed. This tin can take dissimilar aspects, from concrete realities (a loved one, a friend, the motherland, the homeland...) to the mysterious and transcendent. It is quite prevalent and characteristic of the Galician-Portuguese globe, but it tin also exist institute in other cultures."

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Saudade is a discussion in Portuguese and Galician that claims no direct translation in English. However, a close translation in English would exist "desiderium." Desiderium is divers equally an agog want or longing, peculiarly a feeling of loss or grief for something lost. Desiderium comes from the word desiderare, significant to long for. Connections betwixt desiderium and nostalgia have also been drawn; the former can be seen equally expressing the latter for things that tin't be experienced any more than, or things that someone may have never experienced themselves.^[8]

In Portuguese, "Tenho saudades tuas" (European Portuguese) or "Estou com saudades de você" (Brazilian Portuguese), translates as "I have (feel) saudade of you" meaning "I miss you", merely carries a much stronger tone. In fact, ane tin have saudade of someone whom one is with, just have some feeling of loss towards the by or the future. For example, one can have "saudade" towards part of the relationship or emotions once experienced for/with someone, though the person in question is still office of i'southward life, as in "Tenho saudade do que fomos" (I feel "saudade" of the fashion we were). Another example tin can illustrate this use of the give-and-take saudade: "Que saudade!" indicating a full general feeling of longing, whereby the object of longing can exist a general and undefined entity/occasion/person/group/period etc. This feeling of longing tin can be accompanied or better described past an abstract volition to be where the object of longing is.

Despite being hard to translate in full, saudade has equivalent words in other cultures, and is often related to music styles expressing this feeling such as the dejection for African-Americans, Sehnsucht in German, dor in Romania, Tizita in Ethiopia, Hiraeth in Welsh, or Assouf for the Tuareg people, appocundria in Neapolitan. In Slovak, the discussion is clivota or cnenie, and in Czech, the word is stesk. In Turkish, the discussion Hasret meaning longing, yearning or nostalgia has like connotations.

The similar melancholic music style is known in Bosnia-Herzegovina as sevdah (from Turkish sevda: infatuation, ultimately from Standard arabic سَوْدَاء sawdā' : 'black [bile]', translation of the Greek µέλαινα χολή, mélaina cholē from which the term melancholy is derived).

Elements [edit]

Saudade is similar but not equal to nostalgia, a discussion that besides exists in Portuguese.

In the book In Portugal of 1912, A. F. K. Bell writes:

The famous saudade of the Portuguese is a vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist, for something other than the present, a turning towards the past or towards the future; non an active discontent or poignant sadness but an indolent dreaming wistfulness.^[9]

A stronger form of saudade may be felt towards people and things whose whereabouts are unknown, such equally old means and sayings; a lost lover who is sadly missed; a faraway place where one was raised; loved ones who have died; feelings and stimuli one used to accept; and the faded, however gold memories of youth. Although it relates to feelings of melancholy and fond memories of things/people/days gone by, information technology can be a rush of sadness coupled with a paradoxical joy derived from credence of fate and the hope of recovering or substituting what is lost past something that will either fill in the void or provide alleviation.

To F. D. Santos, Saudade every bit a noun has become a longing for longing itself:

At that place was an development from saudades (plural) to Saudade (singular, preferably written with a capital S), which became a philosophical concept. ... Saudade has an object; withal, its object has become itself, for it means 'nostalgia for nostalgia', a meta-nostalgia, a longing oriented toward the longing itself. It is no more the Loved One or the 'Return' that is desired, based on a sense of loss and absenteeism. Now, Desire desires Desire itself, as in the poetry of beloved for love'southward sake in Arabic, or every bit in Lope de Vega'south famous epigram about the Portuguese who was crying for his love for Dear itself. Or, rather, as poetess Florbela Espanca put it, I long for the longings I don't accept ('Anoitecer', Espanca 1923).^[10]

Music [edit]

As with all emotions, saudade has been an inspiration for many songs and compositions. "Sodade" (saudade in Cape Verdean Creole) is the championship of the Cape Verde singer Cesária Évora's most famous song. Étienne Daho, a French singer, also produced a vocal of the same name. The Expert Son, a 1990 album by Nick Cavern and the Bad Seeds, was heavily informed past Cave's mental state at the time, which he has described as saudade. He told journalist Chris Bohn: "When I explained to someone that what I wanted to write about was the retentiveness of things that I thought were lost for me, I was told that the Portuguese give-and-take for this feeling was saudade. Information technology'south not nostalgia but something sadder."

Greatcoat Verdean pop singer Cesária Évora had her biggest hit singing almost saudade

The usage of saudade every bit a theme in Portuguese music goes back to the 16th century, the golden age of Portugal. Saudade, too every bit love suffering, is a mutual theme in many villancicos and cantigas composed past Portuguese authors; for instance: "Lágrimas de Saudade" (tears of saudade), which is an anonymous work from the Cancioneiro de Paris. Fado is a Portuguese music way, generally sung by a single person (the fadista) forth with a Portuguese guitar. The most pop themes of fado are saudade, nostalgia, jealousy, and curt stories of the typical city quarters. Fado and saudade are intertwined key ideas in Portuguese civilisation. The discussion fado comes from Latin fatum significant "fate" or "destiny". Fado is a musical cultural expression and recognition of this unassailable determinism which compels the resigned yearning of saudade, a bitter-sugariness, existential yearning and hopefulness towards something over which one has no control.

Spanish singer Julio Iglesias, whose father is a Galician, speaks of saudade in his vocal "Un Canto a Galicia" (which roughly translates as "a song/chant for Galicia"). In the vocal, he passionately uses the phrase to depict a deep and sad longing for his motherland, Galicia. He besides performs a song called "Morriñas", which describes the Galicians equally having a securely strong saudade.

The Paraguayan guitarist Agustin Barrios wrote several pieces invoking the feeling of saudade, including Choro de Saudade and Preludio Saudade. The term is prominent in Brazilian pop music, including the first bossa nova song, "Chega de Saudade" ("No more than saudade", commonly translated every bit "No More Blues"), written by Tom Jobim. Jazz pianist Bill Evans recorded the tune "Saudade de Brasil" numerous times. In 1919, on returning from 2 years in Brazil, the French composer Darius Milhaud composed a suite, Saudades practice Brasil, which exemplified the concept of saudade. "Saudade (Part Two)" is too the title of a flute solo past the band Shpongle. The fado singer Amália Rodrigues typified themes of saudade in some of her songs. J-Rock band Porno Graffitti has a song entitled "サウダージ", "Saudaaji" transliterated ("Saudade"). The alternative rock band Honey And Rockets has a vocal named "Saudade" on their anthology Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven. June 2012 brought Bearcat's release of their self-titled indie anthology that included a vocal called "Saudade".

The Dutch jazz/Rock guitarist January Akkerman recorded a composition called "Saudade", the centerpiece of his 1996 album Focus in Time. The Belgian electronic music band Arsenal recorded a song chosen "Saudade" on their album Outsides (2005). The jazz fusion group Trio Beyond, consisting of John Scofield, Jack DeJohnette, and Larry Goldings released in 2006 an album defended to drummer Tony Williams (1945–1997), called Saudades. Dance music artist Peter Corvaia released a progressive firm track entitled "Saudade" on HeadRush Music, a sub-characterization of Toes in the Sand Recordings. New York City post-rock band Mice Parade released an album entitled Obrigado Saudade in 2004. Chris Rea also recorded a song entitled "Saudade Office one & 2 (Tribute To Ayrton Senna)" as a tribute to Ayrton Senna, the Brazilian three-times Formula One world champion killed on the track in May 1994. There is an ambient/racket/shoegazing band from Portland, Oregon, named Saudade. The rock ring Farthermost has a Portuguese guitarist Nuno Bettencourt; the influence of his heritage can be seen in the band'south anthology Saudades de Rock. During recording, the mission statement was to bring back musicality to the medium. "Nancy Kingdom of spain", a song past Barney Rush, fabricated famous by an adaptation by Christy Moore, is another case of the use of saudade in gimmicky Irish music, the chorus of which is:

"No thing where I wander I'm still haunted past your name
The portrait of your beauty stays the same
Standing by the sea wondering where you've gone
If you'll render again
Where is the band I gave to Nancy Spain?"

American singer/songwriter Grayson Hugh wrote a song chosen "Saudade" that he performed with jazz guitarist Norman Johnson on Johnson'due south 2013 album "Get It While You Can".

Kingston-Upon-Hull IDM Electronica, Downtempo and Deep Groove fable, Steve Cobby, of Fila Brazillia, Solid Doctor, Heights of Abraham, the Twilight Singers debut notoriety and other musical incarnations and collaborations, released a 12 track anthology "Saudade"^[11] in March 2022 on DÉCLASSÉ Recordings.

Washington DC electronica duo Thievery Corporation released the studio album Saudade in 2022 via their Eighteenth Street Lounge Music label.

Brazilian singer Ana Frango Electrico released a vocal chosen "Saudade" as the opening runway on their 2022 album "Little Electric Chicken Middle"

A. R. Rahman's soundtrack for the 2022 Hindi film Dil Bechara features an instrumental runway called "The Horizon of Saudade".

In 2022, Portuguese singer Maro released a song called "Saudade, saudade" and volition correspond Portugal with it in the Eurovision Vocal Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy.^[12]

Literature [edit]

The Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa'south posthumous drove of writings The Book of Disquiet is written near entirely in a tone of saudade, and deals with themes of nostalgia and alienation.^{[ commendation needed ]} Australian author Suneeta Peres Da Costa'due south novella Saudade follows Maria, a young girl from a Goan immigrant family, growing upwards in a political bureaucracy of racism and colonialism^[thirteen]

Variations [edit]

The Castilian region of Galicia (red) lies n of Portugal and shares a cultural history of saudade.

Saudade is too associated with Galicia, where information technology is used similarly to the word morriña (longingness). Nevertheless, morriña ofttimes implies a deeper stage of saudade, a "saudade then strong it can even kill," as the Galician proverb goes. Morriña was a term often used by emigrant Galicians when talking about the Galician motherland they left behind. Although saudade is too a Galician word, the significant of longing for something that might return is generally associated with morriña. A literary instance showing the understanding of the difference and the use of both words is the song Un canto a Galicia past Julio Iglesias. The word used by Galicians speaking Spanish has spread and become mutual in all Kingdom of spain and even accepted by the Academia.^[14]

In Portugal, morrinha is a word to depict sprinkles, while morrinhar ways "to sprinkle." (The most common Portuguese equivalents are chuvisco and chuviscar, respectively.) Morrinha is also used in northern Portugal for referring to ill animals, for example of sheep dropsy,^[14] and occasionally to sick or pitiful people, oftentimes with irony. Information technology is also used in some Brazilian regional dialects for the smell of wet or sick animals.

In Goa, India, which was a Portuguese colony until 1961, some Portuguese influences still remain. A suburb of Margão, Goa's largest urban center, has a street named Rua de Saudades. It was aptly named considering that very street has the Christian cemetery, the Hindu shmashana (cremation ground) and the Muslim qabrastan (cemetery). Most people living in the city of Margão who pass by this street would agree that the name of the street could not be any other, equally they often call up fond memories of a friend, loved one, or relative whose remains went past that route. The give-and-take saudade takes on a slightly unlike grade in Portuguese-speaking Goan families for whom it implies the one time-cherished but never-to-return days of celebrity of Goa equally a prized possession of Portugal, a notion since and so fabricated redundant past the irrevocable cultural changes that occurred with the stop of the Portuguese regime in these parts.

In Greatcoat Verdean Creole there is the discussion sodadi (also spelled sodade), originated in the Portuguese saudade and exactly with the aforementioned meaning.

See too [edit]

• Grief
• Han
• Hiraeth
• Mono no aware
• Nostalgia
• Sehnsucht
• Adept old days

References [edit]

1. ^ "Saudade". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. n.d.
2. ^ Priberam Informática, S.A. "Significado / definição de saudade no Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa". Archived from the original on viii November 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2010.
3. ^ "MEMORANDUM 08 - NASCIMENTO A.R.A e MENANDRO P.R.M." www.fafich.ufmg.br. Archived from the original on 22 April 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
4. ^ "Portoweb - Datas Comemorativas". Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
5. ^ "Dia da Saudade. Origem east curiosidades sobre o Dia da Saudade - Brasil Escola". Brasil Escola. Archived from the original on 13 February 2010. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
6. ^ Basto, Cláudio. "Saudade em português eastward galego". Revista Lusitana, Vol XVII, Livraria Clássica Editora, Lisboa 1914.
7. ^ Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguese (Brazilian Portuguese Lexicon).
8. ^ "Desiderium, and More Obscure Feeling Words". www.merriam-webster.com . Retrieved eleven January 2020.
9. ^ Bell, A. F. (1912) In Portugal. London and New York: The Bodley Head. Quoted in Emmons, Shirlee and Wilbur Watkins Lewis (2006) Researching the Song: A Lexicon. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, p. 402.
10. ^ Santos, Filipe D. (2017). Education and the Boarding School Novel, The Work of José Régio. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. p. 102. ISBN978-94-6300-739-9. Archived from the original on 4 September 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
11. ^ "Saudade, past Steve Cobby". Déclassé Recordings. Archived from the original on 15 April 2017. Retrieved fifteen Apr 2017.
12. ^ Land, Teddy. "MARO volition represent Portugal at Eurovision 2022 with 'saudade, saudade'". aussievision.net.
13. ^ Saudade, Peres Da Costa, Giramondo Publishing, March 2022 https://giramondopublishing.com/product/saudade/ Archived xviii March 2022 at the Wayback Machine
14. ^ ^{a b} morriña Archived thirteen Feb 2013 at annal.today in the Spanish-language Diccionario de la Real Academia.

Farther reading [edit]

• Lourcenço, Eduardo (1999). Mitologia da saudade (Seguido de Portugal como destino) (in Portuguese). São Paulo: Companhia das Letras. ISBN 85-7164-922-vii.
• Rappa, Antonio L. Saudade: The Culture and Security of Eurasians in Southeast Asia. Ethos Books and Singapore Management University'southward Wee Kim Wee Centre, 2013.
• Ribeiro, Bernardim (Torrao, ~1482 – Lisboa, ~1552). Livro das Saudades (in Portuguese).

External links [edit]

• Emotion as Collective Identity: the case of Portuguese Saudade, Marcia Esteves Agostinho, Academia Letters, February 2021
• Aesthetics of Saudade – Essay comprising the major theories and explaining the doubts surrounding the translation of saudade
• "BBC Brasil": Saudade is the 7th most difficult give-and-take to translate (in Portuguese), London: BBC, 23 June 2004.
• saudade, dictionary.com

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