Mourning into Joy: Music, Raphael, and Saint Cecilia
- Author / Editor
- Connolly, Thomas.
Mourning into Joy: Music, Raphael, and Saint Cecilia
- Published
- New Haven, Conn.; and London: Yale University Press, 1994.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 365 pp.
- Description
- Studies the history and hagiography of St. Cecilia, plus her status as patron saint of music.
- Examines the iconography of the saint, especially as depicted in Raphael's altar piece, arguing that it reflects the "mourning-into-joy" motif that expresses the "soul's passages between vice and virtue as a flux of the contrary passions of joy and sadness."
- Summarizes the iconographic contrasts between SNT and CYT and examines Chaucer's Cecilia in opposition to idleness, explaining her "work" as a figure of spiritual change.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale.
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.