
thumb|The bertsolari Mattin Treku composing a bertso in Sare in 1960
thumb|The bertsolari Mattin Treku composing a bertso in Sare in 1960
thumb|right|Txomin Ezponda composing a bertso Bertsolaritza or bertsolarism is the art of singing improvised songs in Basque according to various melodies and rhyming patterns. Bertsos can be composed at a variety of occasions but are performed generally by one or various bertsolaris onstage in an event arranged for the purpose or as a sideshow, in homage ceremonies, in benefit lunches and suppers, with friends or at a competition. Such a sung piece of composition is called a bertso, the person who sings it is called a bertsolari and the art of composing bertsos is called bertsolaritza in Basque. Traditionally these were sung by men but there is an increasing number of young female bertsolaris today.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).