CSM Cantiga 200 Lyrics: Santa María loei e loo e loarei

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Santa María loei e loo e loarei
Cantiga 200: Santa María loei e loo e loarei
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Esta é de loor de Santa María.

Line Refrain  Metrics  
1 Santa María loei 7  A
2 e loo e loarei. 7  A
 
  Stanza I     
3 Ca, ontr' os que hoge nados 7' b
4 son d' hómees muit' honrrados, 7' b
5 a mi há ela mostrados 7' b
6 mais bẽes, que contarei. 7  A
  Santa María loei...    
 
  Stanza II     
7 Ca a mi de bõa gente 7' b
8 fez vĩir dereitamente 7' b
9 e quis que mui chãamente 7' b
10 reinass' e que fosse rei. 7  A
  Santa María loei...    
Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers ©2013 by Andrew Casson
www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/csm/200
 
  Stanza III     
11 E conas sas pïadades 7' b
12 nas grandes enfermidades 7' b
13 m' acorreu; por que sabiades 7' b
14 que porên a servirei. 7  A
  Santa María loei...    
 
  Stanza IV     
15 E dos que me mal querían 7' b
16 e buscavan e ordían 7' b
17 déu-lles o que merecían, 7' b
18 assí como provarei. 7  A
  Santa María loei...    
 
  Stanza V     
19 A mi de grandes pobrezas 7' b
20 sacou e déu-me requezas, 7' b
21 por que sas grandes nobrezas 7' b
22 quantas mais podér direi. 7  A
  Santa María loei...    
Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers ©2013 by Andrew Casson
www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/csm/200
 
  Stanza VI     
23 Ca mi fez de bõa térra 7' b
24 sennor, e en toda guérra 7' b
25 m' ajudou a que non érra 7' b
26 nen errou, u a chamei. 7  A
  Santa María loei...    
 
  Stanza VII     
27 A mi livrou d' oqueijões, 7' b
28 de mórtes e de lijões; 7' b
29 por que sabiades, varões, 7' b
30 que por ela morrerei. 7  A
  Santa María loei...    
 
  Stanza VIII     
31 Porên todos m' ajudade 7' b
32 a rogar de voontade 7' b
33 que con sa gran pïadade 7' b
34 mi acórra, que mestér hei. CSM 200:34This is another example of obligatory synalepha after the unstressed personal pronoun mi, which (almost) always forms a diphthong with a following vowel. 7  A .on
  Santa María loei...    
Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers ©2013 by Andrew Casson
www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/csm/200
 
  Stanza IX     
35 E quando quisér que seja, 7' b
36 que me quite de peleja 7' b
37 daqueste mund' e que veja 7' b
38 a ela, que sempr' amei. 7  A
  Santa María loei...    
 

Footnotes

Line 34:

This is another example of obligatory synalepha after the unstressed personal pronoun mi, which (almost) always forms a diphthong with a following vowel.

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Footnotes

E1:

The original single .oyyjon ligature seems to have been written here with synaeresis in omees in mind (the shorter form omes being very common). However, this doesn't match the metre of the remaining stanzas, so the word needs to keep its three natural syllables, and hence two virgae .on + .on are required here, matching the first phrase of the stanza music. Elmes' edition takes the same approach, without comment.

Manuscript references

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

[E]200viewhttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/367small.htmlExternal link
[T](folio lost)

Oxford CSM Database record

External link to poem data:  CSM 200http://csm.mml.ox.ac.uk/index.php?p=poemdata_view&rec=200

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Metrical summary

Refrain

7  7

Stanzas

7'  7'  7'  7

Rhyme

AA / bbbA
 RIIIIIIIVVVIVIIVIIIIX
Aei̯
b adosenteadesi.aŋeʣasɛrraoŋesadeeʤa

Estimated performance times

Average syllables / min. Time
Very slow508:22
Slow1004:11
Medium1502:47
Fast2002:05
Very fast2501:40

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: 419