CSM Cantiga 21 Lyrics and Music: Santa María pód' enfermos guarir

Santa María pód' enfermos guarir

Cantiga 21: Santa María pód' enfermos guarir

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Epigraph

Esta é como Santa María fez haver fillo a ũa mollér maninna, e depois morreu-lle, e ressocitou-llo.

Line	Refrain	Metrics
1	Santa María pód' enfermos guarir	11 A
2	quando xe quisér, e mórtos resorgir.	11 A

	Stanza I
3	Na que Déus séu Sant' Esperit' envïou,	11 b
4	e que forma d' hóme en ela fillou,	11 b
5	non é maravilla se del gaannou	11 b
6	vertude per que podéss' esto comprir.	11 A
	Santa María pód' enfermos guarir...

	Stanza II
7	Porend' un miragr' aquesta Reínna	10' b
8	santa fez mui grand' a ũa mesquinna	10' b
9	mollér, que con coita de que maninna	10' b
10	éra, foi a ela un fillo pedir.	11 A
	Santa María pód' enfermos guarir...
Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers ©2013 by Andrew Casson www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/csm/21

	Stanza III
11	Chorando dos ollos mui de coraçôn,	11 b
12	lle diss': “Ai Sennor, oe mia oraçôn,	11 b
13	e por ta mercee un fillo barôn	11 b
14	me dá, con que goi' e te póssa servir.”	11 A
	Santa María pód' enfermos guarir...

	Stanza IV
15	Lóg' o que pediu lle foi outorgado,	10' b
16	e pois a séu temp' aquel fillo nado	10' b
17	que a Santa María demandado	10' b
18	houve, ca lle non quis eno don falir.	11 A
	Santa María pód' enfermos guarir...

	Stanza V
19	Mas o menínn', a pouco pois que naceu,	11 b
20	dũa fórte féver mui cedo morreu;	11 b
21	mas a madre per poucas ensandeceu	11 b
22	por el, e sas faces fillou-s' a carpir.	11 A
	Santa María pód' enfermos guarir...
Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers ©2013 by Andrew Casson www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/csm/21

	Stanza VI
23	Entôn a cativa con gran quebranto	10' b
24	ao mõesteir' o levou e ant' o	10' b
25	altar o pos, fazendo tan gran chanto,	10' b
26	que toda-las gentes fez a si vĩir.	11 A
	Santa María pód' enfermos guarir...

	Stanza VII
27	E braadando começou a dizer:	11 b
28	“Santa María, que me fuste fazer	11 b
29	en dar-m' este fill' e lógo mio toller,	11 b
30	por que non podésse con ele goír?	11 A
	Santa María pód' enfermos guarir...

	Stanza VIII
31	Sennor, que de madre nome me déste,	10' b
32	en toller-mio lógo mal me fezéste;	10' b
33	mas polo prazer que do téu houvéste	10' b
34	Fillo, dá-m' este méu que veja riír.	11 A
	Santa María pód' enfermos guarir...
Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers ©2013 by Andrew Casson www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/csm/21

	Stanza IX
35	Ca tu sóa és a que mio pódes dar,	11 b
36	e porend' a ti o venno demandar;	11 b
37	onde, grorïosa Sennor, sen tardar	11 b
38	dá-mio vivo, que haja que ti gracir.”	11 A
	Santa María pód' enfermos guarir...

	Stanza X
39	Lóg' a oraçôn da mollér oída	10' b
40	foi, e o meninno tornou en vida	10' b
41	por prazer da Virgen santa comprida,	10' b
42	que o fez no leit' u jazía bolir.	11 A
	Santa María pód' enfermos guarir...

	Stanza XI
43	Quand' esto viu a mollér, houve pavor	11 b
44	da primeir', e pois tornou-se-ll' en sabor; †CSM 21:44Mettmann has tornou-sse-l' en sabor following [E], but the l' en (le en) is a Castilianism not found in [To] or [T] (see [SP1987]).	11 b
45	e déu porên graças a Nóstro Sennor	11 b
46	e a sa Madre, porque a quis oír.	11 A
	Santa María pód' enfermos guarir...
Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers ©2013 by Andrew Casson www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/csm/21

Footnotes

In this Cantiga, the odd-numbered stanzas have masculine rhymes (i.e. final stress) in their first three lines, and the even-numbered stanzas have feminine rhymes (i.e. penultimate stress). Mettmann appears to overlook this fact, and tacitly assigns the cantiga to his metrical category number VI, which implies masculine rhymes throughout.

Line 44:

Mettmann has tornou-sse-l' en sabor following [E], but the l' en (le en) is a Castilianism not found in [To] or [T] (see [SP1987]).

Standard spelling

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Manuscript references

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

[E]	21	viewhttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/090small.htmlExternal link
[T]	21
[To]	26	viewhttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/To/bob025small.gifExternal link

Oxford CSM Database record

External link to poem data: CSM 21http://csm.mml.ox.ac.uk/index.php?p=poemdata_view&rec=21

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Metrical summary

Refrain

11 11

Stanzas

11 11 11 11	I III V VII IX XI
10' 10' 10' 11	II IV VI VIII X

Rhyme

AA / bbbA

	R	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX	X	XI
A	iɾ
b		ou̯	iɲa	oŋ	ado	eu̯	anto	eɾ	ɛste	aɾ	ida	oɾ

Estimated performance times

Average syllables / min.		Time
Very slow	50	14:57
Slow	100	7:28
Medium	150	4:59
Fast	200	3:44
Very fast	250	2:59

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: 748