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The flower of paradise : Marian devotion and secular song in medieval and renaissance music /

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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Rothenberg, David J. (David Joseph)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.