Cantiga 156 or A Madre do que de Terra, (XIII cent), is the one of the most beautiful cantigas written by Spanish King Alfonso X - el Sabio - the Wise. The Cantigas de Santa Maria represent one of the largest and best-documented song collections to come out of medieval Europe. Compiled at the court of King Alfonso X of Castile and Leon during the latter part of the thirteenth century, they present miracle stories of the Virgin Mary -- some gathered from around Europe and the Iberian peninsula, others newly composed -- reworked into Galician-Portuguese verse and set to music. These narratives are interspersed in a highly structured pattern with more general praise pieces in the Virgin‟s honour to create a fitting tribute, not only to her but also to its royal patron, Alfonso X el Sabio, whose devotion and sponsorship of learned enterprises are thereby advertised. Each piece, text and music, is preserved in up to three of the collection‟s four manuscripts: the close degree of agreement between the sources gives this collection a more stable and unified nature than other contemporary repertories, and its size -- at over 400 pieces -- makes it a potentially rich resource for studying medieval song. * * * A Madre do que de Terra is a song that tell us a story-legend about priest whose Tongue was Cut Out and how he get it back by the miracle of the St. Mary...A priest always sang the Virgins praises. Heretics seized him and cut out his tongue so that he could no longer compose songs of praise for her. He was very sad that he could not sing, especially when he heard songs he had sung joyfully before. One day he came to Cluny and heard the vespers of the Virgin being sung. He longed to join the monks and tried to sing. The Virgin caused his tongue to grow back again.Many people witnessed the miracle and the priest joined the monks of Cluny... * * * Song is performed by Ensemble Fontegara (Musica Ficta) and can be found on marvelous release of DVD Album Músicas Viajeras: Tres Culturas by Sirius * * * youtu.be/w8jD7YkPaAE
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 21:15:24 +0000
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