The Flower of Paradise

Produktbeschreibung

In spite of their widely disparate uses, Marian prayers and courtly love songs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance often show a stylistic similarity. This book examines the convergence of these two styles in polyphonic music and its broader poetic, artistic, and devotional context from ca.1200-ca.1500. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tables Music Examples Figures Abbreviations A Note on Texts and Translations 1.
Introduction: Devotion to the Virgin and Earthly Love Sacred and Secular Realms
Symbolic Harmony in Medieval and Renaissance Polyphony Liturgical and Devotional
Framework Foundations and Case Studies 2. The Assumption Story in Two
Thirteenth-Century Motet Families The Narrative of First and Second Assumption
Vespers The Flower, Christ, and Mary in a French Motet on Flos filius eius
Mary's Ascent to Heaven in a Bilingual Regnat Motet 3. Springtime and Renewal
over the In seculum Tenor Spring, Eastertide, and Mary Springtime Dance, a
Pastourelle Motet, and the In seculum Hockets Intertextuality in an In seculum
Motet Family Into the Fourteenth Century 4. Guillaume Dufay's Vergene bella, the
Cantilena Motet, and the Italian Lyric Tradition Cantilena, Chanson, and
Cantilena Motet Theologizing Love in Italian Lyric The Canzone and Vernacular
Eloquence 5. Walter Frye's Ave regina caelorum in Musical and Visual Culture
Frye's Tenor as a Secular Cantus Firmus Ave regina caelorum as the Song of
Angels Postscript: Earthly and Heavenly Music in a Painting of the Assumption 6.
Mary, De tous biens plaine "For the salvation of singers": Loyset Compère's
Omnium bonorum plena and the Annunciation De tous biens plaine in a Credo and an
Agnus Dei The Voice of the Virgin in Josquin's Victimae paschali laudes 7. Comme
femme desconfortée and the Redemptive Power of the Virgin's Sorrow Josquin's
Stabat mater and Mary's Lamentation The Crucifixion, the Resurrection, and Two
Motets by Johannes Ghiselin The Dormition and Assumption in Heinrich Isaac's
Angeli archangeli Hieronymus Vinders's Missa Stabat mater and the End of a
Tradition Works Cited 

Autoreninfo

David J. Rothenberg is Associate Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University and the 2007 recipient of the Alfred Einstein Award of the American Musicological Society.