CSM Cantiga 123 Lyrics and Music: De Santa María sinal qual xe quér

De Santa María sinal qual xe quér

Cantiga 123: De Santa María sinal qual xe quér

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Epigraph

Como Santa María guardou un frade mẽor dos dïáboos na hóra que quis morrer, e torcía-se todo con medo deles.

Line	Refrain	Metrics
1	De Santa María sinal qual xe quér	11 A
2	valrrá muit' a quen en ela ben crevér.	11 A

	Stanza I
3	Ca que quér que seja daquesta Sennor †CSM 123:3Elmes line begins Da que quer..., where Da comes from [E]. Mettmann's Ca is from [T].	11 b
4	valrrá muit' a quen de mal coitado for,	11 b
5	e valer-ll-á contra o démo maior	11 b
6	alí u sobr' ele gran poder houvér.	11 A
	De Santa María sinal qual xe quér...

	Stanza II
7	Ben com' en Bitória guariu ũa vez	11 b
8	a un frade mẽor, que de meninnez	11 b
9	entrara na orden e i mui bon prez	11 b
10	vivendo gãara. Mas foi-lle mestér	11 A
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	Stanza III
11	que o acorresse, como ll' acorreu,	11 b
12	Santa María na hóra que morreu,	11 b
13	ca un pouqu' enante todo se torceu	11 b
14	e parou-se negro. E quen vos dissér	11 A

	Stanza IV
15	que mais fea cara podía tẽer	11 b
16	null' hóme, sól non llo querades creer;	11 b
17	mais outro bon frade foi lógu' encender	11 b
18	candea da Virgen, bẽeita mollér.	11 A
	De Santa María sinal qual xe quér...

	Stanza V
19	E des que ena mão lla ensserrou,	11 b
20	a coor mui negra lógo se cambiou	11 b
21	e a faz mui branca toda se tornou	11 b
22	sen obrar i físico de Monpeslér.	11 A
	De Santa María sinal qual xe quér...
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	Stanza VI
23	Mas a pouco rato houve de finar, †CSM 123:23In this line I've substituted finar in place of Mettmann's fĩar, which is written that way in both manuscripts, but does not seem to indicate the likely pronunciation. The only other forms of the verb found in Mettmann are finada and finou, and [DDGM] does not list any other forms with clear [ŋ] (or even [ɲ]). Note also that the modern Galician and Portuguese word is "finar".	11 b
24	ond' houvéron os frades mui gran pesar;	11 b
25	temendo que éra en mao logar,	11 b
26	disséron: “Réz' óra quen rezar soubér	11 A

	Stanza VII
27	o salteiro todo, porque sen falir	11 b
28	nos saber Déus faça u este fez ir.”	11 b
29	Porend' a dous frades o fez Déus vĩir	11 b
30	pois foi mórt', e disse: “Quen saber quisér	11 A

	Stanza VIII
31	porque me torvei todo quando morrí,	11 b
32	esto foi porque os dïáboos vi;	11 b
33	mais poi-la candea adusséron i,	11 b
34	fugiron ên todos. E quen ben fezér	11 A
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	Stanza IX
35	sempre terrá sigo algũu sinal	11 b
36	de Santa María, a que nunca fal	11 b
37	aos que a sérven e sempre lles val	11 b
38	e saca de pẽa quen i estevér.	11 A
	De Santa María sinal qual xe quér...

	Stanza X
39	Assí fez a mi, esto sabede ben,	11 b
40	déu-me logar bõo qual a mi convên;	11 b
41	e vós muitas graças lle dade porên,	11 b
42	ca salvo será sempr' o con que tevér.”	11 A
	De Santa María sinal qual xe quér...

Footnotes

Line 3:	Elmes line begins Da que quer..., where Da comes from [E]. Mettmann's Ca is from [T].
Line 23:	In this line I've substituted finar in place of Mettmann's fĩar, which is written that way in both manuscripts, but does not seem to indicate the likely pronunciation. The only other forms of the verb found in Mettmann are finada and finou, and [DDGM] does not list any other forms with clear [ŋ] (or even [ɲ]). Note also that the modern Galician and Portuguese word is "finar".

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Manuscript references

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

[E]	123	viewhttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/250small.htmlExternal link
[T]	123

Oxford CSM Database record

External link to poem data: CSM 123http://csm.mml.ox.ac.uk/index.php?p=poemdata_view&rec=123

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Metrical summary

Refrain

11 11

Stanzas

11 11 11 11

Rhyme

AA / bbbA

	R	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX	X
A	ɛɾ
b		oɾ	eʣ	eu̯	eɾ	ou̯	aɾ	iɾ	i	al	eŋ

Estimated performance times

Average syllables / min.		Time
Very slow	50	13:38
Slow	100	6:49
Medium	150	4:32
Fast	200	3:24
Very fast	250	2:43

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: 682

CSM Cantiga 123 Lyrics: De Santa María sinal qual xe quér