Cantigas de Santa María

Album by Alfonso X el Sabio & Ensemble Gilles Binchois

Cantigas de Santa María is a collection of medieval songs compiled under Alfonso X el Sabio in the 13th century. The music, written primarily in Galician-Portuguese as monophonic cantigas devoted to the Virgin Mary, preserves melodic notation and vernacular lyrical forms that serve as a key source for the study of 13th-century Iberian musical practice.
First released: 2005

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Prologue to the "Cantigas de Santa María" (Porque trobar é cousa en que jaz)
    6:08
  2. 2.
    Cantiga de Santa María No. 139 "Maravillosos e piadosos"
    5:49
  3. 3.
    Cantiga de Santa María No. 234 "A que faz os peccadores dos peccados repentir"
    5:58
  4. 4.
    Cantiga de Santa María No. 42 "A Virgen mui groriosa"
    5:41
  5. 5.
    Cantiga de Santa María No. 29 "Nas mentes senpre teer"
    1:52
  6. 6.
    Cantiga de Santa María No. 10 "Rosa das rosas e Fror das frores"
    5:48
  7. 7.
    Cantiga de Santa María No. 70 "Eno nome de María"
    5:12
  8. 8.
    Cantiga de Santa María No. 384 "A que por gran fremosura é chamada Fror das frores"
    5:01
  9. 9.
    Cantiga de Santa María No. 380 "Sen calar"
    2:48
  10. 10.
    Cantiga de Santa María No. 90 "Sola fusti, senlleira"
    2:21
  11. 11.
    Cantiga de Fiestas de Santa María No. 422 "Madre de Deus, ora por nos teu Fill' essa ora" (Sibylline verse)
    9:08
  12. 12.
    Cantiga de Santa María No. 110 "Tant' é Santa María de ben mui conprida"
    3:15
  13. 13.
    Cantiga de Santa María No. 350 "Santa María, Sennor"
    3:08
  14. 14.
    Cantiga de Santa María No. 400 "Pero Cantigas de loor"
    4:01
  15. 15.
    Cantiga de Santa María No. 20 "Virga de Jesse"
    4:32
  16. 16.
    Cantiga de Santa María 29 "Nas mentes senpre teer"
    1:05

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