Esta é de loor.
Line | Refrain | Metrics | |
1 | Loar devemos a que sempre faz | 10 A | |
2 | ben e en que toda mesura jaz. | 10 A | |
Stanza I | |||
3 | Esta é Madre de Nóstro Sennor, | 10 b | |
4 | Santa María, que sempr' é mellor; | 10 b | |
5 | porên lle devemos a dar loor | 10 b | |
6 | e nona podemos loar assaz. | 10 A | |
Loar devemos a que sempre faz... | |||
Stanza II | |||
7 | Ca, en qual guisa podemos loar | 10 b | |
8 | muit' a aquela que nos foi mostrar | 10 b | |
9 | a Déus en carne e nos fez salvar | 10 b | |
10 | e nos meteu dos santos en sa az? | 10 A | |
Loar devemos a que sempre faz... | |||
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Stanza III | |||
11 | Par Déus, loada mui de coraçôn | 10 b | |
12 | deve seer dos que no mundo son; | 10 b | |
13 | ca ũus faz salvar, outros perdôn | 10 b | |
14 | gaannan, e o mundo met' en paz. | 10 A | |
Loar devemos a que sempre faz... | |||
Stanza IV | |||
15 | Loada deve seer mais d' outra ren †CSM 170:15Here seer is reduced to a single metrical syllable by synaeresis, as it commonly is elsewhere. [T], which has the music written out for all stanzas, confirms this by assigning the word just a single ligature .oyo. [E] has the musically equivalent .oron at the same position in the melody. | 10 b | .oron |
16 | a que tólle mal sempr' e trage ben | 10 b | |
17 | e por nós róga, e que nos mantên | 10 b | |
18 | e nos defende do démo malvaz. | 10 A | |
Loar devemos a que sempre faz... | |||
Stanza V | |||
19 | De mi vos digo que a loarei | 10 b | |
20 | mentre for vivo, e sempre direi | 10 b | |
21 | ben dos séus bẽes, ca de cérto sei | 10 b | |
22 | que, pois morrer, que verei a sa faz. | 10 A | |
Loar devemos a que sempre faz... | |||
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Footnotes
Line 15: | Here seer is reduced to a single metrical syllable by synaeresis, as it commonly is elsewhere. [T], which has the music written out for all stanzas, confirms this by assigning the word just a single ligature .oyo. [E] has the musically equivalent .oron at the same position in the melody. |
Manuscript references
External links marked are to facsimiles on Greg Lindahl's Cantigas de Santa Maria website.
[E] | 170 | viewhttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/320small.htmlExternal link |
[T] | 170 |
Oxford CSM Database record
External link to poem data: CSM 170http://csm.mml.ox.ac.uk/index.php?p=poemdata_view&rec=170
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Metrical summary
Refrain
10 10 |
Stanzas
10 10 10 10 |
Rhyme
AA / bbbAR | I | II | III | IV | V | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A | aʣ | |||||
b | oɾ | aɾ | oŋ | eŋ | ei̯ |
Estimated performance times
Average syllables / min. | Time | |
---|---|---|
Very slow | 50 | 6:24 |
Slow | 100 | 3:12 |
Medium | 150 | 2:07 |
Fast | 200 | 1:36 |
Very fast | 250 | 1:16 |
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: 320