Cantigas de Santa Maria

Album by Alfonso X el Sabio & Esther Lamandier

Cantigas de Santa Maria is a 13th-century collection of devotional songs compiled under Alfonso el Sabio, completed around 1270. The repertoire is rooted in medieval Galician‑Portuguese vernacular and liturgical traditions, featuring predominantly monophonic, modal melodies with rhythmic flexibility and occasional instrumental realisations, and it represents one of the most extensive surviving bodies of vernacular sacred song from medieval Iberia.
First released: 1981

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Cantiga 384. A que por muy gran fremosura
    4:03
  2. 2.
    Cantiage 159. Non sofre Santa Maria
    5:02
  3. 3.
    Cantiga 60. Entre Av' e Eva
    3:20
  4. 4.
    Cantiga 340. Virgen Madre groriosa
    9:01
  5. 5.
    Cantiga 150. A que Deus ama, amar devemos
    3:12
  6. 6.
    Cantiga 322. A Virgen, que de Deus Madre
    6:12
  7. 7.
    Cantiga 391. Como pod’ a Groriosa
    4:50
  8. 8.
    Cantiga 27. Non devemos por maravilla teer
    7:28
  9. 9.
    Cantiga 20. Virga de Jesse
    3:14

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