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Cantigas de Santa Maria, attr. Alfonso X "el Sabio" (13th-c. Spain)
Monophonic cantiga
From live program "Rosa das Rosas: Songs for the Virgin Mary"
lyrics
Santa María, strela do día,
móstranos vía pera Déus e nos guía.
Ca veer fazelos errados
que perder foran per pecados
entender de que mi culpados
son; mais per ti son perdõados
da ousadía que lles fazía
fazer folía mais que non devería. Santa María, strela do día...
Amostrarnos deves carreira
por gãar en toda maneira
a sen par luz e verdadeira
que tu darnos pódes senlleira;
ca Déus a ti a outorgaría
e a querría por ti dar e daría. Santa maría, strela do día...
Guïar ben nos pód’ o téu siso
mais ca ren pera Paraíso
u Déus ten sempre goi’ e riso
pora quen en el creer quiso;
e prazermía que foss’ a mía
alm’ en tal compannía. Santa maría, strela do día...
Holy Mary, Star of the Day,
show us the way to God and be our guide.
You make the wayward,
who were lost because of sin,
see and understand that they are very guilty.
But they are pardoned by you
for the temerity which caused them
recklessly to do what they should not. Holy Mary, Star of the Day...
You must show us the way
in all our deeds
to win the true and matchless light
which only you can give us,
for God would grant it to you,
and most willingly bestow it for your sake. Holy Mary, Star of the Day...
Your wisdom can guide us far better than any other thing to Paradise, where God has always delight and joy for whoever would believe in Him.
I should rejoice if it please you
to let my soul be in such company. Holy Mary, Star of the Day...
Translation by Kathleen Kulp-Hill
credits
from Alkemie Live 2019,
released April 3, 2020
Tracy Cowart, voice, gothic harp
David McCormick, vielle
Elena Mullins, featured voice, tamburello
Sian Ricketts, voice, recorder
Niccolo Seligmann, plectrum vielle
Presented by Music Before 1800.
Recorded, edited, & mixed by Robert Anderson at the Kosciuszko Foundation, NYC.
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