All 420 cantigas with full lyrics, musical notation, detailed pronunciation, performance notes, research tools and resources. Choral public domain library begun in december 1998, cpdl is one of the worlds largest free sheet music sites. No other source provides such an encyclopedic view of all classes of medieval european society, from kings and popes to the lowest peasants. The 420 compositions include 353 narratives of miracles of the blessed virgin mary one of the largest such collections as well as a large number of devotional and. Men saw her as an intermediary between the common people. Customers and visitors can download classical music in high quality flac or mp3 and find out more about classical music. Written during the rule of alfonso x, king of castile and leon also known as alfonso. Although these are traditionally ascribed to alfonso x of castile, according to grove music there is disagreement about whether the king limited his part to supervision or whether he wrote some of the words and music himself. Ive always been fairly satisfied with all the other recordings after all, they are marvellous works to begin with but their interpretation is, to be honest, merely ordinary, compared with what is on this disk.
Ive always been fairly satisfied with all the other recordings after all, they are marvellous works to begin with but their interpretation is, to be honest, merely ordinary, compared with what is. After having been accustomed to seeing so many either. It is one of the largest collections of monophonic songs from the middle ages and is characterized by the mention of the virgin mary in every song. In order to download some of these papers, youll need access to jstor or project muse, so if you dont. All 420 cantigas with full lyrics, musical notation, detailed pronunciation, performance. Ill investigate a bit more to see if there is a good temporary workaround, but otherwise theres not much to. The cantigas are one of the most popular and enduring repertoires for medieval musicians and singers, and to date a huge variety of different interpretations have been recorded and performed.