CSM Cantiga 81 Lyrics and Music: Par Déus, tal sennor muito val

Par Déus, tal sennor muito val

Cantiga 81: Par Déus, tal sennor muito val

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Standard spelling

Epigraph

Como Santa María guareceu a mollér do fógo de San Marçal que ll' havía comesto todo o rostro.

Line	Refrain	Metrics
1	Par Déus, tal sennor muito val	8 A
2	que toda door tóll' e mal.	8 A

	Stanza I
3	Esta sennor que dit' hei	7 b
4	é Santa María,	5' c
5	que a Déus, séu Fillo Rei,	7 b
6	róga todavía	5' c
7	sen al,	2 A
8	que nos guarde do infernal	8 A

	Stanza II
9	fógo, e ar outrossí	7 b
10	do daqueste mundo,	5' c
11	dessí d' outro que há i,	7 b
12	com' oí, segundo	5' c
13	que fal',	2 A
14	algũa vez por San Marçal,	8 A
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	Stanza III
15	de que sãou ũa vez	7 b
16	ben a Gondïanda,	5' c
17	ũa mollér que lle fez	7 b
18	rógo e demanda	5' c
19	atal,	2 A
20	per que lle non ficou sinal	8 A

	Stanza IV
21	daquele fógo montês	7 b
22	de que laida éra,	5' c
23	onde tan gran dano pres	7 b
24	que porên poséra	5' c
25	cendal	2 A
26	ant' a faz con coita mortal,	8 A

	Stanza V
27	de que atán ben sãou	7 b
28	a Virgen aquesta	5' c
29	mollér, que lógo tornou	7 b
30	ll' a carne comesta	5' c
31	igual	2 A
32	e con sa coor natural,	8 A
Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers ©2013 by Andrew Casson www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/csm/81

	Stanza VI
33	tan fremosa, que entôn	7 b
34	quantos la catavan	5' c
35	a Virgen, de coraçôn	7 b
36	chorando, loavan,	5' c
37	a qual	2 A
38	é dos coitados hespital.	8 A
	Par Déus, tal sennor muito val...

Footnotes

In this Cantiga every stanza but the last ends in the middle of a sentence. If you wish to sing more refrains than just the first and last without disturbing the sense too badly, I would suggest the break between stanzas II and III as the only decent candidate.

Standard spelling

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Footnotes

E1:

[E] has no flat on this stave, but the melody would seem to require it, and the omission is understandable given that the only affected note is the plica tone on the .ood. The version in [To] does not have the plica, just a plain long note, but in any case that version is written in A, which implies the flat throughout when the tune is transposed to D in [E].

Manuscript references

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

[E]	81	viewhttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/189small.htmlExternal link
[T]	81
[To]	48	viewhttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/To/bob047small.gifExternal link

Oxford CSM Database record

External link to poem data: CSM 81http://csm.mml.ox.ac.uk/index.php?p=poemdata_view&rec=81

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

8 8

Stanzas

7 5' 7 5' 2 8

Rhyme

AA / bcbcAA

	R	I	II	III	IV	V	VI
A	al
b		ei̯	i	eʣ	es	ou̯	oŋ
c		i.a	undo	anda	ɛɾa	esta	aβaŋ

Estimated performance times

Average syllables / min.		Time
Very slow	50	6:33
Slow	100	3:16
Medium	150	2:11
Fast	200	1:38
Very fast	250	1:18

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: 328