cantiga

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cantiga

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Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese cantiga, from Old Galician-Portuguese cantiga.

noun cantigas

A medieval monophonic song, sometimes religious, characteristic of the Galician-Portuguese lyric. The most immediately engaging work here was Roberto Sierra’s “Güell Concert” (2006). Mr. Sierra uses a medieval Spanish cantiga as the work’s motto, but leaps quickly into modern rhythmic and harmonic complexities.

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@misc{cantiga_2026,
  title = {cantiga},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cantiga},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}