Rothenberg: The Flower of Paradise - Marian Devotion and Secular Song in Medieval and Renaissance Music Thirty_up to 30% off ISBN: 978-0-253-01641-6

ISBN: 978-0-253-01641-6

3rd Octave D - Pedal Harp Gut String by Bow Brand

Sonata Duodecima in D Minor

Then Handel's setting of the text to music is described

Made from solid beech wood and laminated soundboard

Rothenberg: The Flower of Paradise - Marian Devotion and Secular Song in Medieval and Renaissance Music Thirty_up to 30% off ISBN: 978-0-253-01641-6There 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