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UNINA9910460050703321 |
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Belohlavek John M |
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Broken glass [[electronic resource] ] : Caleb Cushing & the shattering of the Union / / John M. Belohlavek |
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Kent, Ohio, : Kent State University Press, c2005 |
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1-283-02474-8 |
9786613024749 |
1-61277-447-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (497 p.) |
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Legislators - United States |
Politicians - Massachusetts |
Mexican War, 1846-1848 |
Diplomats - United States |
Diplomats - China |
Attorneys general - United States |
Electronic books. |
Massachusetts Politics and government 1775-1865 |
United States Politics and government 1815-1861 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The view from High Street, 1800-1826 -- Foreign adventures and congressional ventures, 1827-1834 -- Whig star rising : the politics of antislavery, 1835-1837 -- Battling the British Lion and the American Fox, 1837-1840 -- Tyler and the Corporal's Guard, 1841-1843 -- The road to China, 1843-1844 -- The warrior of Manifest Destiny, 1845-1848 -- The doughface Democrat, 1848-1853 -- The powerbroker : attorney general, 1853-1857 -- The most unpopular man in New England, 1857-1861 -- From Massachusetts exile to Washington insider, 1861-1869 -- The diplomat reemerges, 1869-1879. |
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UNINA9910961979503321 |
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Rothenberg David J (David Joseph) |
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The flower of paradise : Marian devotion and secular song in medieval and renaissance music / / David J. Rothenberg |
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New York City, : Oxford University Press, 2011 |
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0-19-045336-2 |
1-283-29704-3 |
9786613297044 |
0-19-987557-X |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (283 p.) |
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Music - 500-1400 - History and criticism |
Music - 15th century - History and criticism |
Love songs - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 desconforteĢe and the Redemptive Power of the Virgin's Sorrow; Works Cited; Index |
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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 |
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studied together. Author David J. Rothenberg takes |
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