CSM Cantiga 109 Lyrics and Music: Razôn han os dïabos de fogir

Razôn han os dïabos de fogir

Cantiga 109: Razôn han os dïabos de fogir

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Epigraph

Como Santa María livrou un hóme de cinco dïáboos que o querían levar e matar.

Line	Refrain	Metrics
1	Razôn han os dïabos de fogir	10 A
2	ant' a Virgen que a Déus foi parir.	10 A

	Stanza I
3	Dereito fazen de s' ir perder	9 b
4	ant' a de que Déus quiso nacer;	9 b
5	ca per ela perderon séu poder	10 b
6	de guisa que nos non póden nozir.	10 A
	Razôn han os dïabos de fogir...

	Stanza II
7	Dest' un miragre quéro contar	9 b
8	que fez a Virgen que non há par	9 b
9	nen haverá mentr' o mundo durar,	10 b
10	esto vos pósso jurar sen mentir.	10 A
	Razôn han os dïabos de fogir...
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	Stanza III
11	O miragre foi en tal razôn:	9 b
12	cinco dïabos ũa sazôn	9 b
13	s' assũaron e fillaron entôn	10 b
14	todos un hóme polo mal bailir.	10 A
	Razôn han os dïabos de fogir...

	Stanza IV
15	Pera Salas en caminn' entrou;	9 b
16	quand' a vista do logar chegou,	9 b
17	essa companna assí s' espantou	10 b
18	que o non leixaron adeant' ir	10 A

	Stanza V
19	aquel hóme, segund' aprendí,	9 b
20	ta que dous frades vẽéron i	9 b
21	mẽores, que o levaron dalí	10 b
22	aa eigreja lógo sen falir,	10 A
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	Stanza VI
23	querelando-se, com' apres' hei,	9 b
24	os démões da Madre do Rei	9 b
25	dos Céos en como vos éu direi:	10 b
26	“Esta nos fará dest' hóme partir.”	10 A
	Razôn han os dïabos de fogir...

	Stanza VII
27	Un judéu os conjurou por Déus	9 b
28	que disséssen porque os judéus	9 b
29	non fillavan. Diss' un démo: “Ca méus	10 b
30	sodes e punnades de me servir.	10 A
	Razôn han os dïabos de fogir...

	Stanza VIII
31	Por esto non vos fazemos mal,	9 b
32	ca sodes todos nóssos sen al;	9 b
33	mai-los que do batismo o sinal	10 b
34	tragen, aqueles imos percodir.”	10 A
	Razôn han os dïabos de fogir...
Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers ©2013 by Andrew Casson www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/csm/109

	Stanza IX
35	Esto dito, fogiu o judéu;	9 b
36	mai-los dïabos, com' aprix éu,	9 b
37	cada un deles lógo sinal déu	10 b
38	quando houvéron do hóm' a saír.	10 A
	Razôn han os dïabos de fogir...

	Stanza X
39	Desto déron todos gran loor	9 b
40	a Santa María, que sabor	9 b
41	há de valer sempr' ao pecador	10 b
42	e d' os dïabos sempre destroír.	10 A
	Razôn han os dïabos de fogir...

Footnotes

This Cantiga is quite unique in that the [E] and [T] versions have distinct metrical structures, both equally good. The version here is from [E] (and fits the music in Elmes' edition). In [T], by contrast, all of the nine-syllable lines here have ten syllables instead, with consistently modified wording. For example, the first stanza begins Gran dereito fazen de ss' ir perder // ant' aquela de que Deus quis nacer; the second begins Dest' un miragre vos quero contar // que fez a Virgen que non ouve par; and so on. Unfortunately, however, the music in [T] is exactly the same as the music in [E], and therefore it doesn't actually fit the extra syllables (see the facsimile link on the Resources tab).

Standard spelling

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Footnotes

E1:	For the reprise of the refrain, the [E] scribe started writing out the stanza melody instead of the refrain melody. This is obviously an error, since (a) it has no precedent and (b) the refrain is two syllables longer than would fit that part of the melody anyway; hence my correction here.

Manuscript references

External links marked are to facsimiles on Greg Lindahl's Cantigas de Santa Maria website.

[E]	109	viewhttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/230small.htmlExternal link
[T]	109	viewhttp://www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/img/CSM109.jpg

Oxford CSM Database record

External link to poem data: CSM 109http://csm.mml.ox.ac.uk/index.php?p=poemdata_view&rec=109

Links to the Oxford database are provided with the kind permission of the project team. When planning a concert or recording, I would recommend that you use (and credit) my more pragmatic texts and supporting materials in the preparation of your performance, but that you request permission from the Oxford database team to reproduce (and credit) their own critically edited texts in your programme or liner notes, as these adhere to stricter criteria that keep them closer to the original sources, and undoubtedly have the greater academic authority.

Metrical summary

Refrain

10 10

Stanzas

9 9 10 10

Rhyme

AA / bbbA

	R	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX	X
A	iɾ
b		eɾ	aɾ	oŋ	ou̯	i	ei̯	ɛu̯s	al	ɛu̯	oɾ

Estimated performance times

Average syllables / min.		Time
Very slow	50	12:00
Slow	100	6:00
Medium	150	4:00
Fast	200	3:00
Very fast	250	2:23

These are very approximate total times for a full sung (or spoken) performance of all stanzas with all repeats of the refrain. Note that the speed is in average syllables per minute, and no particular mensural interpretation is assumed. More ornamented music will reduce the syllabic speed considerably. Remember also to add time for instrumental preludes, interludes and postludes.

Total syllables: 600