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



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Autore: Rothenberg David J (David Joseph) Visualizza persona
Titolo: The flower of paradise [[electronic resource] ] : Marian devotion and secular song in medieval and renaissance music / / David J. Rothenberg Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York City, : Oxford University Press, 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (283 p.)
Disciplina: 780.9/02
Soggetto topico: Music - 500-1400 - History and criticism
Music - 15th century - History and criticism
Love songs - History and criticism
Classificazione: 9,2
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 desconfortée 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
Titolo autorizzato: The flower of paradise  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-29704-3
9786613297044
0-19-987557-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910781750803321
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