Esta é de loor de Santa María.
| Line | Refrain | Metrics | |
| 1 | Tant' é Santa María de ben mui comprida, | 12' A | |
| 2 | que pera a loar tempo nos fal e vida. | 12' A | |
| Stanza I | |||
| 3 | E como póde per lingua seer loada | 12' b | |
| 4 | a que fez porque Déus a sa carne sagrada | 12' b | |
| 5 | quis fillar e ser hóme, per que foi mostrada | 12' b | |
| 6 | sa deïdad' en carne, vista e oída? | 12' A | |
| Tant' é Santa María de ben mui comprida... | |||
| Stanza II | |||
| 7 | Ca tantos son os bẽes de Santa María, | 12' b | |
| 8 | que lingua dizer todos nonos podería, | 12' b | |
| 9 | nen se fosse de férro e noite e día | 12' b | |
| 10 | non calasse, que ante non fosse falida. | 12' A | |
| Tant' é Santa María de ben mui comprida... | |||
| Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers ©2013 by Andrew Casson www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/csm/110 | |||
| Stanza III | |||
| 11 | Se purgamẽo foss' o céo estrelado | 12' b | |
| 12 | e o mar todo tinta, que grand' é provado, | 12' b | |
| 13 | e vivesse por sempr' un hóme enssinado | 12' b | |
| 14 | de 'scriver, ficar-ll-ía a maior partida. | 12' A | |
| Tant' é Santa María de ben mui comprida... | |||
Footnotes
| E1: | The long-short pattern of this note and the next contradicts not only every other phrase of the music, including the vuelta, but also the reprise of the refrain at the end (E2). So it's probably a scribal error, and .on + .o should be replaced by .o + .on as elsewhere. |
| E2: | See E1. |
Manuscript references
External links marked 
are to facsimiles on Greg Lindahl's Cantigas de Santa Maria website.
| [E] | 110 | viewhttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/231small.htmlExternal link |
| [T] | 110 |
Oxford CSM Database record
External link to poem data: CSM 110http://csm.mml.ox.ac.uk/index.php?p=poemdata_view&rec=110
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Metrical summary
Refrain
| 12' 12' |
Stanzas
| 12' 12' 12' 12' |
Rhyme
AA / bbbA| R | I | II | III | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | ida | |||
| b | ada | i.a | ado | |
Estimated performance times
| Average syllables / min. | Time | |
|---|---|---|
| Very slow | 50 | 5:12 |
| Slow | 100 | 2:36 |
| Medium | 150 | 1:44 |
| Fast | 200 | 1:18 |
| Very fast | 250 | 1:02 |
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: 260
