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Alfonso owing to his influence on other works within the poetic tradition, including his introduction on religious song. Although King Alfonso X's authorship is debatable, his influence is not. While the other major works that came out of Alfonso's workshops, including histories and other prose texts, were in
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Cantigas are a collection 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 songs of praise or involve Marian festivities. The Cantigas depict the Virgin Mary in a very humanized way, often having
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might have been the author of a large number of the
Cantiga poems. King Alfonso X — named as Affonso in the Cantigas — is also believed to be an author of some of them as he refers himself in first person. Support for this theory can be found in the prologue of the Cantigas. Also, many
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was never finished, and so no music was ever added. Only the empty staves display the intention to add musical notation to the codex at a later date. It is generally thought that the codices were constructed during
Alfonso's lifetime,
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International Symposium on the "Cantigas de Santa Maria" of Alfonso X, el Sabio (1221–1284) in Commemoration of Its 700th Anniversary
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tended, with some exceptions, to be unsatisfactory. This remains a lively topic of debate and study. Progress, while on-going, has nevertheless been significant over the course of the last 20 years.
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is the earliest collection and contains 129 songs. Although not illustrated, it is richly decorated with pen flourished initials, and great care has been taken over its construction. The
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contains 195 surviving cantigas (8 are missing due to loss of folios) which roughly correspond in order to the first two hundred in
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733:(French site: MIDI files based on Anglés transcriptions; also texts but with many OCR errors and thousands of missing letters.)
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Ferreira, Manuel Pedro (2015). "Rhythmic paradigms in the
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The metrics are extraordinarily diverse: 280 different formats for the 420 Cantigas. The most common are the
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The Songs of Holy Mary by Alfonso X, the Wise: A Translation of the Cantigas de Santa Maria.
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