The Marian Lauda as a Phenomenon of Interaction of Clerical and Secular Cultures of the Late Middle Ages

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Olga V. Nemkova

Abstract

This article examines the genre of the Marian Lauda as a
multifaceted and historically unique artistic phenomenon.
On the one hand, the interconnection between the church
and the mundane poetical musical forms carried out through
it becomes revealed. On the other hand, emphasis is given
to the modification within this genre of the most essential
particular features of the artistic interpretation of the image
of the Virgin Mary during the era of her cult. The Marian
Lauda is demonstrated in a broad pictorial-semantic context
defined by the complexity and variety of the processes of the
spiritual life of the Late Middle Ages. The key significance in
the comprehension of the sphere of Marian subject matter by
the artistic consciousness of the era of dualism of the central
image (its belonging to the “earthly” or “celestial” planes of
existence). Attention is stressed on the importance of the role
played in the formation and development of the Marian Lauda
(and, to take it more broadly, in the artistic evolution of the
subject of the Virgin Mary in Western European culture) by
the factors of the flourishing of Latin mysticism, the activities
of the monastic orders and the non-ecclesiastical religious
movements of the 12th and 13th centuries.

Keywords: sacred non-liturgical song, Marian Lauda

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How to Cite
Nemkova, O. V. (2013). The Marian Lauda as a Phenomenon of Interaction of Clerical and Secular Cultures of the Late Middle Ages. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, (2), 258–263. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/154
Section
Musical Genre and Style
Author Biography

Olga V. Nemkova, The Tambov State Musical-Pedagogical S.V. Rachmaninoff Institute

Candidate of Arts,
Pro-Rector for Research and Methodological Work,
Head of the Choral Conducting Department,
Assistant Professor, Acting Professor

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