| Commentary: |
Snow 1977 no. 1: "Gil de Zamora must be counted as Alfonso's first professional critic: he was a poet and a theoretician of music at Alfonso's court. From the art. above, p. 321: "adeo quoque animum suum transtulit ad investigandas et per scrutandas mundanas scientias et divinas, quod omnes fere scripturas triviales et quadriviales, canonicas et civiles, scripturas quoque theologicas seu divinas transferri fecit in linguam maternam; ita et omnes possent evidentissime intueri et intelligere quoquomodo illa, que sub lingue latine phaleris et figura tecta et secreta, etiam ipsis sapientibus, videbantur. More quoque Davitico etiam, ad preconium Virginis gloriose multas et perpulchras composuit cantinelas, sonis convenientibus et proportionibus musicis modulatas". Perhaps the only independent contemporary evidence of direct intervention in texts and music by Alfonso."rn |
