The Cantigas de Santa Maria
The Cantigas de Santa Maria medieval-era manuscripts were written during the reign of Alfonso X "El Sabio" (1221-1284) and are one of the largest collections of monophonic (solo) songs from the middle ages.Facsimiles
Illuminations
Discography
Bibliography (in progress)
Related Links
- The Notation of the Cantigas de Santa Maria: Diplomatic Edition (3 volumes, downloadable pdfs)
- The Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers (an accurate text edition with music transcriptions in manuscript notation)
- Articles from Ian Pittaway
- "Why do you not praise her?": the Virgin Mary and the troubadours
- "I wish from this day forth to be her troubadour": the composition of the Cantigas de Santa Maria
- 'The Virgin's vengeance, Regina's rewards, and the surprising character of Mary in the Cantigas de Santa Maria'
- The animated chop of meat (and other miraculous marvels): pilgrimage songs in the Cantigas de Santa Maria
- "Infidels", "traitors" and "that ugly bearded crew": fear and loathing in the Cantigas de Santa Maria
- Surprising songs of sentient statues: the Virgin, Venus, and Jason and the Argonauts
- Performing medieval music, with a focus on CSM: Instrumentation, Turning monophony into polyphony, The medieval style
- Glosario da poesía medieval profana galego-portuguesa
- Performing editions for Cantigas 1-427 (music editions in modern notation)
- The Cantigas de Santa Maria Database
- With initial contents: Index of First Lines, Index of Refrains.
- The Periphery Effaced: The Musicological Fate of the Cantigas
- The Medieval Fate of the Cantigas de Santa Maria: Iberian Politics Meets Song
- Putting the Cantigas in context: tracing the sources of Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria
- Andalusian music and the Cantigas de Santa María
- Rondeau and virelai: the music of Andalus and the Cantigas de Santa Maria
- Spania versus Spain in the Cantigas de Santa María
- Understanding the Cantigas: Preliminary Steps
- "A música no códice rico: formas e notação"
- Jograis, contrafacta, formas musicais: cultura urbana nas Cantigas de Santa Maria
- Alfonso X, compositor
- Cobras e Som. Papers from a Colloquium on the Text, Music and Manuscripts of the Cantigas de Santa Maria
- A translation and partial facsimile of Alfonso X's Libro de Juegos (book of games) (also images only) (and the PhD thesis)
- Emperor of Culture: Alfonso X the Learned of Castile and His Thirteenth-Century Renaissance
- Iberian Resources Online
- Some transcriptions and translations of the Cantigas
- A japanese page (containing all the E Codex miniatures in color, but low resolution)
- Introduction and a few translations, in French
- Sample tracks from the Naxos "Alfonso X" CD
- An online copy of the Toledo (To) manuscript
- A recent color facsimile (but it's out of print) (Codice Rico)
- Another recent color facsimile (in print) (Florence Codex)
- Some cantiga transcriptions/translations
- A webpage about Alfonso X (translations of 8 cantigas)
- Accentation and Duration in Music of the Cantigas de Santa Maria (article)
- A short article about Iberian chivalric literature
- Some CSM translations into modern French
- Some less-accurate material: