There is a striking similarity between Marian devotional songs and secular love songs of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Two disparate genres-one sacred, the other secular; one Latin, the other vernacular-both praise an idealized, impossibly virtuous woman. Each does so through highly stylized derivations of traditional medieval song forms-Marian prayer derived from earlier Gregorian chant, and love songs and lyrics from medieval courtly song. Yet despite their obvious similarities, the two musical and poetic traditions have rarely been studied together. Author David J. Rothenberg takes
| Title |
The flower of paradise : Marian devotion and secular song in medieval and renaissance music / David J. Rothenberg. |
|---|---|
| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Publisher |
New York City : Oxford University Press |
| Creation Date |
2011 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
| Content |
Cover Contents List of Illustrations Abbreviations A Note on Texts and Translations 1. Introduction: Devotion to the Virgin and Earthly Love 2. The Assumption Story in Two Thirteenth-Century Motet Families 3. Springtime and Renewal over the In seculum Tenor 4. Guillaume Dufay's Vergene bella, the Cantilena Motet, and the Italian Lyric Tradition 5. Walter Frye's Ave regina caelorum in Musical and Visual Culture 6. Mary, De tous biens plaine 7. Comme femme desconfortée and the Redemptive Power of the Virgin's Sorrow Works Cited Index |
| Extent |
1 online resource (283 p.) |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
997010706305905171 |
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