The Flower of Paradise: Marian Devotion and Secular Song in Medieval and Renaissance Music
- Author: Rothenberg, David
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Contents
- 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 Vulgar Eloquence
- 5. Walter Frye's Ave