Cantus coronatus: 7 cantigas d'El-Rei Dom Dinis: by King Dinis of Portugal
Author: Dinis (King of Portugal)
Publisher: Edition Reichenberger
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9783937734095
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Author: Dinis (King of Portugal)
Publisher: Edition Reichenberger
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9783937734095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry T. Drummond
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-04-23
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0197670601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlfonso X (1221-84) ruled over the Crown of Castile from 1252 until his death. Known as "the Wise," he oversaw the production of a wealth of literature in his scriptorium. One of the most impressive of these literary outputs is the collection of songs known as the Cantigas de Santa Maria, which by most counts comprises 429 songs preserved in four manuscripts. The miracle songs (or cantigas de miragre) form the focus of this book. While the Cantigas have been the subject of much scholarly attention, only a handful of studies have looked at the repertory through an interdisciplinary lens. Fewer still have probed how the Cantigas use the power of song as a communicative medium, one that functions as a social tool within the erudite environment of the Alfonsine court. This book offers a new perspective to the song collection, probing how the Cantigas use their music and text, together with rhetorical devices, to communicate with their desired audience. Author Henry T. Drummond builds upon previous methodologies, adopting a novel and holistic assessment of the songs' melodies, poetic features, and narrative logic to assess a wide selection of songs. He presents a nuanced understanding of a song form that effectively conveys its narratives to its listeners via a diverse combination of tools, embracing medieval rhetoric, rhyme-based play, and song's inherent ludic potential. Such devices, Drummond argues, allow for the Cantigas to loom large as propaganda pieces, designed to dignify Alfonso X through an elaborately devised courtly ritual.
Author: Stephen Parkinson
Publisher: MHRA
Published: 2015-04-07
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 1781880239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA selection of the 13th-century Galician Cantigas de Santa Maria commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile in a new edition produced by the Oxford CSM Critical Edition project, with critical apparatus. The order of poems will replicate the distinctive internal structure of the main compilations and the edition will make these texts available in a form suitable as a set text for student use, with an introduction placing them in their historical, cultural and linguistic context, and with English translations.
Author: John E. Keller
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-10-21
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0813185254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe hundreds of illuminated miniatures found in the Cantigas de Santa Maria, sponsored by King Alfonso X (1252–84), reveal many vistas of daily life in thirteenth century Spain. No other source provides such an encyclopedic view of all classes of medieval European society, from kings and popes to the lowest peasants. Men and women are seen farming, hunting, on pilgrimage, watching bullfights, in gambling dens, making love, tending silkworms, eating, cooking, and writing poetry, to name only a few of the human activities represented here. Combining keen observation of detail with years of experience in the field, John Keller and Annette Grant Cash bring to life a world previously little explored.
Author: Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789004110236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the "Cantigas de Santa Maria," a collection of about four hundred poems written in Galician, Alfonso X, el Sabio, king of Castile-Leon, has left us a kind of poetic biography. This volume explicates the historical circumstances surrounding the stories that the king tells about himself and his kingdom. As Mary's troubadour, he appeals to her as his advocate and consoler.
Author: Joseph O'Callaghan
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-09-20
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9004477616
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the Cantigas de Santa Maria, a collection of more than four hundred poems written in the language of medieval Galicia in praise of the Virgin Mary, Alfonso X, el Sabio, king of Castile-Leon, has left us a kind of poetic biography. Declaring himself Mary's troubadour, he appeals to her as his advocate and consoler as he recounts specific events in his life and that of his kingdom. As he tells us about his family, his war against the Muslims of Granada and Morocco, the treachery of the nobility, his frequent illnesses, and his fear of hellfire and damnation, he reveals much about his personality and his spirituality. This volume explicates the historical circumstances surrounding the events described in the cantigas. The Cantigas de Santa Maria is a royal biography unique in thirteenth-century Europe.
Author: Alfonso X (King of Castile and Leon)
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Published: 1889
Total Pages: 620
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2022-05-17
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0691207410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA bilingual volume that reveals an intriguing world of courtly love and satire in medieval Portugal and Spain The rich tradition of troubadour poetry in western Iberia had all but vanished from history until the discovery of several ancient cancioneiros, or songbooks, in the nineteenth century. These compendiums revealed close to 1,700 songs, or cantigas, composed by around 150 troubadours from Galicia, Portugal, and Castile in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. In Cantigas, award-winning translator Richard Zenith presents a delightful selection of 124 of these poems in English versions that preserve the musical quality of the originals, which are featured on facing pages. By turns romantic, spiritual, ironic, misogynist, and feminist, these lyrics paint a vibrant picture of their time and place, surprising us with attitudes and behaviors that are both alien and familiar. The book includes the three major kinds of cantigas. While cantigas de amor (love poems in the voice of men) were largely inspired by the troubadour poetry of southern France, cantigas de amigo (love poems voiced by women) derived from a unique native oral tradition in which the narrator pines after her beloved, sings his praises, or mocks him. In turn, cantigas de escárnio are satiric, and sometimes outrageously obscene, lyrics whose targets include aristocrats, corrupt clergy, promiscuous women, and homosexuals. Complete with an illuminating introduction on the history of the cantigas, their poetic characteristics, and the men who composed and performed them, this engaging volume is filled with exuberant and unexpected poems.
Author: E. Michael Gerli
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 960
ISBN-13: 9780415939188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlso providing in-depth discussions of the rich contributions of Muslim and Jewish cultures, and offering useful insights into their interactions with Catholic Spain, this comprehensive work is an invaluable tool for students, scholars, and general readers alike."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Roland Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-23
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 113676769X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerformance practice is the study of how music was performed over the centuries, both by its originators (the composers and performers who introduced the works) and, later, by revivalists. This first of its kind Dictionary offers entries on composers, musiciansperformers, technical terms, performance centers, musical instruments, and genres, all aimed at elucidating issues in performance practice. This A-Z guide will help students, scholars, and listeners understand how musical works were originally performed and subsequently changed over the centuries. Compiled by a leading scholar in the field, this work will serve as both a point-of-entry for beginners as well as a roadmap for advanced scholarship in the field.