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[16] . Luis P. Villalba Muñoz, Cantigas a la Inmaculada Virgen Maria: cantiga X de el rey D . Alfonso
el Sabio (Madrid: Ildefonso Alier , 190?).
[17] . Keller , " An Unknown Castilian Lyric Poem : The Alfonsine Translation of Cantiga X of the
Cantigas de Santa Maria," Hispanic Review 43 (1975): 43-47. Keller discovered the poem among the
Castilian prosifications of the first twenty-six cantigas, which, according to recent investigations,
could have been made during the reign of Sancho IV (1284- 1295), by Sancho himself, or by Alfonso's
nephew, Juan Manuel (1282-1348/49), or perhaps much later. For a discussion of the prosifications,
see Anthony C á rdenas, "A Study of Alfonso's Role in Selected Cantigas and the Castilian
Prosifications of Escorial Codex T.I.1," in Studies on the Cantigas, 248-68.
[18] . Compare Keller's textual transcription with that of José Filgueira Valverde, Alfonso X el Sabio.
Cantigas de Santa María (Madrid: Editorial Castalia, 1985), 352. For modern Castilianized versions,
see Angel del Río, Antología general de la literatura española (New York: Holt, Rinehart and
Winston, 1960), 1: 50-51, and Filgueira Valverde, Alfonso: Cantigas, 29. See also the instructive
comments on the text by Augusto J. Magne , " Afonso X, o Sabio. Excerptos anotados," Revista da
lingua portuguesa 8/44 (1926): 55-110, esp. 68-69.
[19] . The text is taken from Walter Mettmann , Alfonso X, el Sabio. Cantigas de Santa Maria
(cantigas 1 a 100) (Madrid: Editorial Castalia, 1986), 84-85. Mettmann , "Die altportugiesische
Marienlyrik vor 1300," in Grundriss der romanischen Literaturen des Mittelalters , ed. H. H. Jauss
(Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1968), 18, cites Sennor and Sennor das Sennores among the most traditional
names and Marian epithets and refers to the phrases of the first textual strophe "Rosa das rosas, etc."
as Hebrew superlatives.
[20] . This was given to me as a gift by Hugh Ross, Schindler's successor at the Schola Cantorum.
[21] . For other free as well as literal English translations, see (1) Robert Eisenstein, Program notes
for the Folger Consort's program "A Medieval Tapestry" presented at Corpus Christi church (New
York, Sunday, 27 November 1983), 5; (2) Kathleen Kulp -Hill, Cantigas (see above, ch . 4, n. 13),
109; (?) Lorraine Noel Finney, in Reese, Music in the Middle Ages, 248; (4) Medieval Lyrics of
Europe, ed. Willard R. Trask (New York: World Publishing Co., 1969), 130; and (5) Américo Castro,
The Structure of Spanish History, trans. Edmund L. King (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1954), 362.
[22] Officially, his final concert with the Schola Cantorum took place ten days later at the high school
auditorium in Summit, New Jersey.
[23] . This certainly is not true. During Alfonso's reign (1252-1284), there was no fixed capital.
Seville, however, was the most favored city of the court.
[24] . He is referring here to Las Cantigas de Santa Maria de Alfonso el Sabio, ed . Leopoldo Augusto
de Cueto, Marqués de Valmar, 2 vols. (Madrid: Real Academia Espa ñ ola, 1889).
[25] . Schindler was ignorant of the existence of the four extant Cantigas codices. At the Hispanic
Society, the former work can be seen in a photographic copy under the call name Cantigas de Santa