More than an article-review about Margit Frenk’s Nuevo corpus, this is a real laus to an entire life, more than half a century of devoted research. On top of a highly positive assesment of this two thousand and two hundred pages book, this note provides some new materials (lyrical ballads, songs for dances, children playsongs, etc.), obtained mainly from one source: Rosario Moreno Montoro, the author’s mother