Rothenberg: The Flower of Paradise - Marian Devotion and Secular Song in Medieval and Renaissance Music Key_C North: Masquerade Royale

North: Masquerade Royale

Capirola: Gentil Prince

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Volker Kernbach Soprano Shawm Cane Reed with staple

edited by John Robinson

Rothenberg: The Flower of Paradise - Marian Devotion and Secular Song in Medieval and Renaissance Music Key_C North: Masquerade RoyaleThere 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