CSM Cantiga 299 Lyrics and Music: De muitas maneiras Santa María mercees faz

De muitas maneiras Santa María mercees faz

Cantiga 299: De muitas maneiras Santa María mercees faz

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Epigraph

Como Santa María vẽo en visiôn a un freire e mandou-lle que désse ũa sa omagen que tragía a un rei.

Line	Refrain	Metrics
1	De muitas maneiras Santa María	10' A
2	mercees faz aos que por séus ten.	10 B

	Stanza I
3	Dest' un miragre mostrar-vos querría,	10' A
4	e de mio oírdes vos rogaría	10' A
5	de bõa ment', e per el vos faría	10' A
6	saber servir a comprida de ben.	10 B
	De muitas maneiras Santa María...

	Stanza II
7	Est' avẽo a un rei que servía	10' A
8	esta Sennor quant' ele mais podía,	10' A
9	e en loá-la gran sabor prendía;	10' A
10	e direi-vos que ll' avẽo porên.	10 B
	De muitas maneiras Santa María...
Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers ©2013 by Andrew Casson www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/csm/299

	Stanza III
11	Un freire dos da Estrela tragía	10' A
12	a séu cólo, en que muito criía,	10' A
13	ũa omagen desta que nos guía,	10' A
14	d' almafí, que séu Fill' en braços ten.	10 B
	De muitas maneiras Santa María...

	Stanza IV
15	E ũa noit' en séu leito jazía,	10' A
16	nen éra ben espérto nen dormía;	10' A
17	viu a Madre de Déus que lle dizía:	10' A
18	“Essa omagen non tragas per ren	10 B

	Stanza V
19	que trages, ca fazes i gran folía	10' A
20	ena trager assí; mais vai ta vía	10' A
21	al Rei e dá-lla, ca me prazería	10' A
22	se lla désses, e farías bon sen.”	10 B
	De muitas maneiras Santa María...
Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers ©2013 by Andrew Casson www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/csm/299

	Stanza VI
23	Quand' esto ll' houve dito, lógo s' ía;	10' A
24	e o freir' a outros freires dizía	10' A
25	est', e cada un deles respondía:	10' A
26	“Aquest' é sonno que non vai nen ven.”	10 B
	De muitas maneiras Santa María...

	Stanza VII
27	E o freire, quand' aquesto oía,	10' A
28	de a non dar al Rei fillou perfía;	10' A
29	mas depois ben tres vegadas vií' a	10' A
30	que lle diss' assí en mui gran desdên:	10 B

	Stanza VIII
31	“E como fillaste tal ousadía	10' A
32	de non dar o que te mandad' havía	10' A
33	que désses al Rei, e gracir-cho-ía?	10' A
34	Mas dá-lla; se non, mal te verrá ên.”	10 B
	De muitas maneiras Santa María...
Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers ©2013 by Andrew Casson www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/csm/299

	Stanza IX
35	O freire lóg' ante de tercer día	10' A
36	a séu maestr' aquesto descobría,	10' A
37	que lle respôs: “Fezéstes bavequía	10' A
38	eno tardar, e a vós non convên	10 B

	Stanza X
39	tal omagen, mas al Rei converría.	10' A
40	E por aquesto vos conssellaría	10' A
41	que lla déssedes, ca el sabería	10' A
42	honrrá-la muit'; e vos buscad' alguên	10 B

	Stanza XI
43	que vaa vósqu'”. E ele lógo s' ía,	10' A
44	e achou el Rei que missa oía,	10' A
45	e déu-ll' a omagen, que alegría	10' A
46	houve con ela grande vèramên.	10 B
	De muitas maneiras Santa María...
Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers ©2013 by Andrew Casson www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/csm/299

	Stanza XII
47	E conas mãos ambas a ergía,	10' A
48	e graças por aquesto lle rendía	10' A
49	e o séu santo nome bẽeizía,	10' A
50	dizendo: “Bẽeita sejas, amên.”	10 B
	De muitas maneiras Santa María...

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Footnotes

E1:	Elmes refers to the manuscript being "damaged" at this point, but the blemish is merely show-through from the decorated capital 'G' on the other side of the folio. This note and the following plica are still visible, however.
E2:	Both the words Santa Maria and their music were omitted by accident at the manuscript page break, although just the words were later added in tiny letters before the break. I have restored the music here by copying from the vuelta at E3.
E3:	See E2.

Manuscript references

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

[E]	299	viewhttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/532small.htmlExternal link
[F]	78

Oxford CSM Database record

External link to poem data: CSM 299http://csm.mml.ox.ac.uk/index.php?p=poemdata_view&rec=299

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

10' 10' 10' 10

Rhyme

AB / AAAB

	R	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX	X	XI	XII
A	i.a
B	eŋ

Estimated performance times

Average syllables / min.		Time
Very slow	50	15:46
Slow	100	7:53
Medium	150	5:15
Fast	200	3:56
Very fast	250	3:09

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: 789

CSM Cantiga 299 Lyrics: De muitas maneiras Santa María mercees faz