An illustration from the E codex of the Cantigas de Santa Maria.

The Cantigas are preserved in four manuscripts: To ( códice de Toledo ), T, F ( códice de Florencia ) and E ( códice de los músicos ).

* The Songs of Holy Mary by Alfonso X, the Wise: A Translation of the Cantigas de Santa Maria.

* Studies on the " Cantigas de Santa Maria ": Art, Music, and Poetry: Proceedings of the International Symposium on the " Cantigas de Santa Maria " of Alfonso X, el Sabio ( 1221 – 1284 ) in Commemoration of Its 700th Anniversary Year – 1981.

* Cobras e Son: Papers on the Text Music and Manuscripts of the " Cantigas de Santa Maria ".

* Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers ( full text with syllable marks, pronunciation guide and concordance )

* http :// csm. mml. ox. ac. uk / ( the Centre for the Study of the Cantigas de Santa Maria of Oxford University )

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Cantigas de Santa Maria, mid-13th century, Spain

File: Christian and Muslim playing ouds Catinas de Santa Maria by king Alfonso X. jpg | Christian and Muslim playing lute, miniature from Cantigas de Santa Maria by king Alfonso X.

Christian and Muslim playing lute s in a miniature from Cantigas de Santa Maria of Alfonso X.

* 1280 to 1283 – The E codex of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, a collection of Portuguese musical manuscripts, is dated to between 1280 and 1283.

* The E. codex of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, a collection of Portuguese musical manuscripts, is dated to between 1280 and 1283.

File: Jaume I, Cantigas de Santa Maria, s. XIII. jpg | The Moors request permission from James I of Aragon

Alfonso established Castilian as a language of higher learning, and was a prolific author of Galician poetry, such as the Cantigas de Santa Maria, which are equally notable for their musical notation as for their literary merit.

These works included Cantigas d ' escarnio e maldicer and the vast compilation Cantigas de Santa Maria (" Songs to the Virgin Mary "), which was written in Galician-Portuguese and figures among the most important of his works.

In 1993, pop rock band Ex-Votos released an album called " Cantigas do Bloqueio ", with the hit single " Subtilezas porno-populares " a. k. a. "... e pimba " a song that talked about the sexual fantasies of a degenerate man-it was so successful that popular singer Emanuel was quick to jump in the bandwagon and create a song with the same expression (" pimba ") being repeatedly used in the chorus.

The Cantigas depict the Virgin Mary in a very humanized way, often having her play a role in earthly episodes.

* Cantigas de Santa Maria, a collection of medieval Galician-Portuguese vernacular songs and poems in praise of the Virgin Mary

The Cantigas are written in Galician-Portuguese, the lyrical language of Castile at the time.

The Cantigas are composed of 420 poems, 356 of which are in a narrative format relating to Marian miracles ; the rest of them, except an introduction and two prologues, are of lore or involve Marian festivities.

While the other major works that came out of Alfonso's workshops, including histories and other prose texts, were in Castilian, the Cantigas are in Galician-Portuguese, and reflect the popularity in the Castilian court of other poetic corpuses such as the cantigas d ' amigo and cantigas d ' amor.

The metrics are extraordinarily diverse: 280 different formats for the 420 Cantigas.

The Cantigas are frequently recorded and performed by Early Music groups, and quite a few CDs featuring music from the Cantigas are available.

The musical forms within the Cantigas, and there are many, are still being studied.

Another famous titles from this popular era are Aldeia da Roupa Branca ( 1938 ), O Pátio das Cantigas and O Pai Tirano ( 1941 ), O Costa do Castelo ( 1943 ), A Menina da Rádio ( 1944 ) and O Leão da Estrela ( 1947 ).

Mensuration is a particular problem in the Cantigas, and most attempts at determining meaningful rhythmic schemes have tended, with some exceptions, to be unsatisfactory.

* http :// perso. club-internet. fr / brassy / PartMed / Cantigas / CSMIDI. html ( French site: MIDI files based on Anglés transcriptions ; also texts but with many OCR errors and thousands of missing letters.

* Las Cantigas de Santa Maria-Songs and Instrumental Music from the Court of Alfonso X, with the Waverly Consort, Michael Jaffee, dir.

Their encounter gave birth to a major production, a selection of the thirteenth century Cantigas of King Alfonso el Sabio with European and Moroccan musicians collaborating.

* Cantigas of Alfonso el Sabio with the Abdelkrim Rais Ensemble of Fez, Morocco ( Edison Prize, 2000 )

One famous illustration of these bladder pipes appears in the 13th-century Spanish manuscript, known as the Cantigas de Santa Maria in the library of El Escorial in Madrid, together with a bladder pipe having two pipes, a chanter and a drone side by side.

The Cantigas de Santa Maria, a collection of manuscripts written in old Galician, also show illustrations of people playing bagpipes.