The Cantigas de Santa Maria is a vast collection of over 400 pieces, with texts in the Galician language, ascribed to King Alfonso the Wise (c. 1284). While most of the cantigas narrate miracles of the Virgin Mary, the corpus is carefully structured, so that every tenth piece is a song in her praise. This new edition has been prepared with both scholars and performers in mind. The texts have been newly prepared in a regularized spelling, with a parallel English version for those who seek a word-by-word understanding of the original. An introductory chapter, and notes on the individual texts, provide a context for a fuller understanding.
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"Here is a rich story of medieval music and religious song undistorted by copying or use over seven centuries and with all the scholarship that could satisfy the student of language or music." Books Ireland Summer 2000 "for the useful summary of current thinking on the Cantigas, the invaluable guide to pronunciation, the literal translations that allow the performer to understand each work he or she is singing and the perceptive notes to each song, this edition is indispensable to both scholar and performer." Times Literary Supplement Feb 2001
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This review is from: Cantigas de Loor: Alfonso X el Sabio (Paperback)
This is an outstanding resource for early musicians. Cunningham walks you through the history of the Cantigas and King Alfonso, the cultural, poetic and musical environment which they emerged from, discusses pronunciation, and both the challenges of deciphering the music and the historical attempts to do so. It's comprehensive and scholarly, yet accessible to lay folk. It could be improved if more of the songs were analyzed in more detail, but there are a number which are broken down and discussed note for note so you can see how he reached the conclusions he did in creating a modern transcription. This allows you to do so yourself from the remaining manuscripts. This doesn't have full sheet music for all the Cantigas, but it does have about 40 and gives you the tools to decode the rest.
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