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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457581603321

Autore

Rothenberg David J (David Joseph)

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York City, : Oxford University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-29704-3

9786613297044

0-19-987557-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Disciplina

780.9/02

Soggetti

Music - 500-1400 - History and criticism

Music - 15th century - History and criticism

Love songs - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 desconforteĢe and the Redemptive Power of the Virgin's Sorrow; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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