CSM Cantiga 298 Lyrics: Graça e vertude mui grand' e amor Cantiga 298This cantiga is the first one that has no music in the manuscripts. The staves are all set up in [E] with underlaid text, but they are devoid of musical notes. One for spoken recitations, then, or you could perhaps use the music from another cantiga with the same 11 11 / 11 11 11 11 metre, of which there are quite a few.

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Graça e vertude mui grand' e amor
Cantiga 298: Graça e vertude mui grand' e amor
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Standard spelling
Epigraph  

Como Santa María de Seixôn guariu ũa mollér de demónio.

Line Refrain  Metrics  
1 Graça e vertude mui grand' e amor 11  A  
2 móstra Santa María no pecador. 11  A  
 
  Stanza I     
3 Gran vertude faz en doentes sãar, 11  b  
4 e graça de no-los érros perdõar; 11  b  
5 amor nos ar móstra de por nós rogar 11  b  
6 sempr' ao séu Fillo, nósso Salvador. 11  A  
  Graça e vertude mui grand' e amor...    
 
  Stanza II     
7 E porend' óra un miragre direi 11  b  
8 que en Seixôn fez a Madre do gran Rei; 11  b  
9 quant' end' aprendí ren non vos negarei, 11  b  
10 e de o oír haveredes sabor. 11  A  
  Graça e vertude mui grand' e amor...    
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  Stanza III     
11 Ũa mollér bõa, por vos non mentir, 11  b  
12 demónio havía e per ren guarir 11  b  
13 dele non podía, e prometeu d' ir 11  b  
14 a Seixôn que lle tolless' esta door. 11  A  
  Graça e vertude mui grand' e amor...    
 
  Stanza IV     
15 E Santa María tev' assí por ben 11  b  
16 de non tardar muito; e guisou porên 11  b  
17 candeas e cera e al que convên 11  b  
18 a tod' aquel que en romaría for. 11  A  
  Graça e vertude mui grand' e amor...    
 
  Stanza V     
19 Des i confessou-se ben, com' aprendí, 11  b  
20 e saiu-s' entôn esta mollér assí 11  b  
21 e foi-s' a Seixôn. E depois que foi i, 11  b  
22 entrou na eigreja, e con gran pavor 11  A  
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  Stanza VI     
23 que do dém' havía fez sa oraçôn 11  b  
24 ben ante o altar da Virgen. Entôn 11  b  
25 a fillou mui fórt' o dïabo felôn, 11  b  
26 que houvéron todos ên mui gran temor. 11  A  
  Graça e vertude mui grand' e amor...    
 
  Stanza VII     
27 E poi-la assí ant' o altar fillou, 11  b  
28 gran péça a tev'; e pois se levantou 11  b  
29 a mollér, daquesta guisa começou 11  b  
30 sa oraçôn quant' ela pode mellor, 11  A  
 
  Stanza VIII     
31 e diz: “Grorïosa Virgen, que nacer 11  b  
32 Jesú de ti quiso, se for téu prazer, 11  b  
33 de mi t' amercẽa e o téu poder 11  b  
34 aquí móstra sobr' aqueste traedor 11  A  
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  Stanza IX     
35 que me fillou óra ante ti tan mal 11  b  
36 e non quis catar ta eigreja nen al; 11  b  
37 mas, Virgen Reínna santa sperital, 11  b  
38 guarda-me daqueste falss' enganador. 11  A  
  Graça e vertude mui grand' e amor...    
 
  Stanza X     
39 Sennor, os pecados non cates que fiz 11  b  
40 assí como faz mollér mui pecadriz; 11  b  
41 mas tu, que dos céos és Emperadriz, 11  b  
42 róga téu Fillo, nósso Remĩidor, 11  A  
 
  Stanza XI     
43 que me dé saúde polo amor téu. 11  b  
44 E pois el tal honrr' aas molléres déu 11  b  
45 que de ti pres carne, Virgen, rógo-t' éu 11  b  
46 que t' amercees de mi que sofredor 11  A  
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  Stanza XII     
47 soon de gran coita que mi o démo dá 11  b  
48 qual nunca mollér houve nen haverá; 11  b  
49 ai, Madre de Déus, Sennor, tólle-mio ja, 11  b  
50 e seerei sempre túa servidor.” 11  A  
  Graça e vertude mui grand' e amor...    
 
  Stanza XIII     
51 A Virgen María lóg' aquela vez 11  b  
52 ao démo mao, negro chus ca pez, 11  b  
53 daquela mollér que se quitasse fez, 11  b  
54 e des alí non foi dela tomador. 11  A  
  Graça e vertude mui grand' e amor...    
 
  Stanza XIV     
55 E a bõa dona, pois se viu de pran 11  b  
56 fóra do poder daquel peor que can, 11  b  
57 déu loor a Déus, e a do bon talán, 11  b  
58 sa Madre, serviu e foi esmolnador. 11  A  
  Graça e vertude mui grand' e amor...    
Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers ©2013 by Andrew Casson
www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/csm/298
 

Footnotes

This cantiga is the first one that has no music in the manuscripts. The staves are all set up in [E] with underlaid text, but they are devoid of musical notes. One for spoken recitations, then, or you could perhaps use the music from another cantiga with the same 11 11 / 11 11 11 11 metre, of which there are quite a few.

Cantiga 298 has no music.

Manuscript references

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

[E]298viewhttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/531small.htmlExternal link
[F]9 

Oxford CSM Database record

External link to poem data:  CSM 298http://csm.mml.ox.ac.uk/index.php?p=poemdata_view&rec=298

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

11  11

Stanzas

11  11  11  11

Rhyme

AA / bbbA
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A
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Estimated performance times

Average syllables / min. Time
Very slow5018:55
Slow1009:27
Medium1506:18
Fast2004:43
Very fast2503:47

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: 946