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Okay, after trawling through what felt like several hundred different Cantigas de Santa Maria today, I finally found my elusive mystery cantiga on You Tube. And in case you're wondering how this was accomplished while I was at work, well, I was alone in the office and in need of some inspirational music by which I could finish my data structure report.
Um, I don't know what the Good Presbyterian Folk of nineteenth century Ayrshire would think if they knew or suspected that I was writing about their mortal remains while listeninbg to what they'd dismiss as superstitious nonsense. Thankfully, they're not around to know about it. What the eye doesn't see, etcetera...
Anyway, it certainly did the trick! And I've now got a whole load of new performances of cantigas to track down. Though unfortunately this particular rendition has not had any information about the performers uploaded.
For your information, here it is. It's very moreish (and very moorish!), too! And the gratuitous beauty passes of medieval stone-carving are well worth drooling over, too. I particularly liked the weird camels, which I suspect may be 15th century or thereabouts...
Enjoy:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMJlteyA8MI
And just think, if you're new to the Cantigas de Santa Maria and you want to find out more about them, there's just another 400 or so out there just waiting to be discovered. One of my personal favourites is CSM 103, which features a miracle involving an Abbot who asks the Virgin for a glimpse of paradise before he dies. He hears a bird singing, and the sound's so beautiful that he sits entranced for a thousand years...
Um, I don't know what the Good Presbyterian Folk of nineteenth century Ayrshire would think if they knew or suspected that I was writing about their mortal remains while listeninbg to what they'd dismiss as superstitious nonsense. Thankfully, they're not around to know about it. What the eye doesn't see, etcetera...
Anyway, it certainly did the trick! And I've now got a whole load of new performances of cantigas to track down. Though unfortunately this particular rendition has not had any information about the performers uploaded.
For your information, here it is. It's very moreish (and very moorish!), too! And the gratuitous beauty passes of medieval stone-carving are well worth drooling over, too. I particularly liked the weird camels, which I suspect may be 15th century or thereabouts...
Enjoy:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMJlteyA8MI
And just think, if you're new to the Cantigas de Santa Maria and you want to find out more about them, there's just another 400 or so out there just waiting to be discovered. One of my personal favourites is CSM 103, which features a miracle involving an Abbot who asks the Virgin for a glimpse of paradise before he dies. He hears a bird singing, and the sound's so beautiful that he sits entranced for a thousand years...
