Alla Francesca – Llibre Vermell de Monserrat

Album : Llibre Vermell de Montserrat

Performer : Alla Francesca

Release date : 1995

Label :  ARTS Music

Number of discs : 1

Genre : Medieval

Total time : 01:06:24

Tracklist:

Anon., Las Huelgas Ms.:

1. In virgulto gracie
   Alfonso el Sabio (attr.): Cantigas de Santa Maria
2. Cantiga 48: Tanto son da groriosa
3. Cantiga 302: A Madre de Jhesu Christo
4. Cantiga 57: Mui grandes noit'e dia
   Anon., Las Huelgas Ms.:
5. Casta catolica
   Anon., Llibre Vermell de Montserrat:
6. O virgo splendens
7. Stella splendens in monte
8. Laudemus virgiriem / Splendcns ceptgera
9. Los set goytx
10. Cuncti simus
11. Polorum regina
12. Inperayritz de la ciutat joyosa
13. Mariam matrem virginem
14. Inperayritz de la ciutat joyosa
15. Los set goytx
16. Ad mortem festinamus 

Pilgrim songs and dances associated with the Shrine to the Virgin of Montserrat.

As such, the purpose of the compilation is made clear by its anonymous compiler himself:

Quia interdum peregrini quando vigilant in ecclesia Beate Marie de Monte Serrato volunt cantare et trepudiare, et etiam in platea de die, et ibi non debeant nisi honestas ac devotas cantilenas cantare, idcirco superius et inferius alique sunt scripte. Et de hoc uti debent honeste et parce, ne perturbent perseverantes in orationibus et devotis contemplationibus.

"Because the pilgrims wish to sing and dance while they keep their watch at night in the church of the Blessed Mary of Montserrat, and also in the light of day; and in the church no songs should be sung unless they are chaste and pious, for that reason these songs that appear here have been written. And these should be used modestly, and take care that no one who keeps watch in prayer and contemplation is disturbed."




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