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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rothenberg, David J. (David Joseph)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Prayers and devotions--History and criticism.

Mary.

Music--500-1400--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--15th century--History and criticism.

Love songs--History and criticism.

Love songs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York City : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-045336-2

1-283-29704-3

9786613297044

0-19-987557-X

OCLC:

756484829