Story Behind The Song
Old meets new; this medieval piece is arranged and reimagined on modern instruments.
Song Description
Circa 16th C.
The "Canticles of Holy Mary" is one of the largest collections of monophonic (solo) songs from the Middle Ages, comprised of 420 poems with musical notation, written in the medieval Galician-Portuguese language during the reign of Alfonso X of Castile El Sabio (1221-1284). Traditionally, they are all attributed to Alfonso, though scholars have since established that the musicians and poets of his court were responsible for most of them, with Alfonso being credited with a few as we
| Song Length |
2:32 |
Genre |
Classical - Renaissance, Classical - Religious |
| Lead Vocal |
Instrumental |
Language |
No Language |
| Era |
Before 1600 |
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