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cantigas

Spanish sacred songs for single voice of the 13th century, mostly in honour of the Virgin Mary, allied in form to the French virelai and the Italian lauda.



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30) In numbers 5, 6 and 10 he utilized melodies extracted from the work Las Cantigas de Santa Maria by King Alfonso X the Wise.
00) offers up an an unblemished collection of just under an hour's worth of carols, medieval cantigas and Renaissance dances that celebrate Christmas and the Christmas season.
The book also interprets texts which are collateral to the Portuguese relatos, such as excerpts from Camoes' Os Lusiadas, Alfonso o Sabio's Cantigas de Santa Maria, Spanish travel chronicles, Zurara's Cronica da Guine, Diogo do Couto, and Francisco Manuel de Melo, as well as critical work on these texts.
 
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