Christine Getz is Associate Professor of Musicology and Dean's Scholar at the University of Iowa.

Mary, Music and Meditation contains a wealth of scholarship of great interest to historians and musicologists alike. The appendices to the book supply nearly 150 pages of archival transcriptions, and musical examples that will serve many scholars as research and teaching resources.(Journal of Jesuit Studies) A welcome and growing trend in scholarship on Renaissance sacred music is an expanding view of the spiritual concerns and devotional practices that surrounded and impelled the composition, performance, listening, and perception of music. Christine Getz's study of institutional, ritual, and personal Marian devotion in Milan joins that conversation. Getz bases her findings on primary-source documents, on music printed or published in close conjunction with the institutions, and on the scholarship of Italian and Milanese religious culture of the period.(Rennaisance Quarterly)

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Venerating the Veil: The Madonna Of Miracles at Santa Maria presso San Celso2. The Art of Lamenting: The Cult of the Madonna Addolorata at Santa Maria dei ServiHistory of the Cult of the Madonna Addolorata3. Singing before a Madonna on the Pilaster: The Society of the Ave Maria in Duomo4. Invoking the Mulier Fortis: The Confraternity of The Rosary5. Clothed in the Sun and Standing on the Moon: Meditating Motherhood in the Cult of the Madonna del PartoEpilogue: The Case of Santa Maria SegretaAppendix A: DocumentsAppendix B: Pay records for the singers of the Ave Maria in DuomoAppendix C: Contents of Selected Collections by Milanese ComposersAppendix D: Musical ExamplesNotesBibliographyIndex

Christine Getz is Associate Professor of Musicology and Dean's Scholar at the University of Iowa.

Mary, Music and Meditation contains a wealth of scholarship of great interest to historians and musicologists alike. The appendices to the book supply nearly 150 pages of archival transcriptions, and musical examples that will serve many scholars as research and teaching resources.(Journal of Jesuit Studies) A welcome and growing trend in scholarship on Renaissance sacred music is an expanding view of the spiritual concerns and devotional practices that surrounded and impelled the composition, performance, listening, and perception of music. Christine Getz's study of institutional, ritual, and personal Marian devotion in Milan joins that conversation. Getz bases her findings on primary-source documents, on music printed or published in close conjunction with the institutions, and on the scholarship of Italian and Milanese religious culture of the period.(Rennaisance Quarterly)

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Venerating the Veil: The Madonna Of Miracles at Santa Maria presso San Celso2. The Art of Lamenting: The Cult of the Madonna Addolorata at Santa Maria dei ServiHistory of the Cult of the Madonna Addolorata3. Singing before a Madonna on the Pilaster: The Society of the Ave Maria in Duomo4. Invoking the Mulier Fortis: The Confraternity of The Rosary5. Clothed in the Sun and Standing on the Moon: Meditating Motherhood in the Cult of the Madonna del PartoEpilogue: The Case of Santa Maria SegretaAppendix A: DocumentsAppendix B: Pay records for the singers of the Ave Maria in DuomoAppendix C: Contents of Selected Collections by Milanese ComposersAppendix D: Musical ExamplesNotesBibliographyIndex