Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 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 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D.

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