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Author Rothenberg, David J. (David Joseph)

Title The flower of paradise : Marian devotion and secular song in medieval and renaissance music / David J. Rothenberg.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 264 pages) : illustrations, music
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
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Subject Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Prayers and devotions -- History and criticism.
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
Genre/Form Prayers and devotions.
Subject Music -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism.
Music.
Chronological Term 500-1400
Subject Music -- 15th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 15th century
Subject Love songs -- History and criticism.
Love songs.
Chronological Term 500-1499
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Prayers.
Prayers.
Devotional literature.
Devotional literature.
Other Form: Print version: Rothenberg, David J. Flower of Paradise : Marian Devotion and Secular Song in Medieval and Renaissance Music. Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, ©2011 9780195399714
ISBN 9780199875573 (electronic book)
019987557X (electronic book)
9780195399714 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
0195399714 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 9786613297044