Rothenberg: The Flower of Paradise - Marian Devotion and Secular Song in Medieval and Renaissance Music Thirty_up to 30% off We can hear the universe

We can hear the universe

The author has also deliberately kept the section devoted to interpretation quite short: if one were to go in depth into all the problems concerned with style and expression (and could one ever cover them all

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Rothenberg: The Flower of Paradise - Marian Devotion and Secular Song in Medieval and Renaissance Music Thirty_up to 30% off We can hear the universeThere is a striking similarity between Marian devotional songs and secular love songs of the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Two disparate genresone sacred, the other secular; one Latin, the other vernacularboth 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