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- noun A
medieval monophonic song , sometimesreligious , characteristic of theGalician -Portuguese lyric .
Etymologies
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Note 27: I shall not discuss the two Spanish versions, in the Cantigas de Santa Maria (cantiga 4, with illustrations), various editions, and in Gonzalo de Berceo's Milagros de nuestra señora, ed.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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_Prologo_: _Eu por mim digo com a cantiga se o dizem digão_, etc.
Four Plays of Gil Vicente Gil Vicente 1501
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¶ Esta cantiga cantarão & baylarão de terreyro os foliões, & acabada diz
Four Plays of Gil Vicente Gil Vicente 1501
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Images from the cantiga manuscripts, projected on a large screen behind the performers, along with English translations of the Galician texts, balanced out the experience by squaring the modern adaptation with medieval piety, a world view in which the Glorious Virgin could quite plausibly help a drunken monk make it back to the cloister without getting into too much trouble (Cantiga 47, Virgen Santa Maria, guarda-nos) or cause a candle to descend to a musician who had sung her praises well at Rocamadour (Cantiga 8).
Ionarts Charles T. Downey 2009
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a cantiga della foy cantada de canto dorgam, & a letra he a seguinte:
Four Plays of Gil Vicente Gil Vicente 1501
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473 Pero Vaz evidently did not know the _cantiga: _
Four Plays of Gil Vicente Gil Vicente 1501
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