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Mourning into Joy: Music, Raphael, and Saint Cecilia.
By Thomas Connolly. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1994. [xv, 365 p. ISBN 0-300-05901-9. $35.00.]
Thomas Connolly (University of Pennsylvania) has written a learned and absorbing study of the legend and cult of St. Cecilia. His principal concern is to reveal the interlacing of musical thought and mystical Christian spirituality that is embodied in her medieval devotion, beginning in Rome in the sixth century, and to trace a tradition of mystical-musical associations through the Renaissance, again chiefly in Italy, but with a lengthy detour through Geoffrey Chaucer's "Second Nun's Tale" (chapter 6). Raphael's famous altarpiece of cat 1515, The Ecstasy of Saint Cecilia, provides a starting point and final destination for the author's survey of Cecilian spiritual writings, liturgical literature, and visual images. The musical iconography of this painting, commissioned for the Bolognese holy woman Elena Duglioli dall'Olio, for her chapel in San Giovanni in Monte, represents, in Connolly's view, the culmination of a "spiritual lineage" (p. 110) rooted in medieval thought and ultimately grounded in late antique notions of the passions of the soul.
The title, Mourning into Joy, refers chiefly to a range of metaphorical expressions of biblical origin that Connolly finds more or less directly associated with the cult of Cecilia and that appear in various guises over the centuries to signify "the soul's passages between vice and virtue as a …
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