Hildegard von bingen solo

Hildegards centuries old treasure of knowledge is finding a new audience. Mysterious, talented, colorful, and enigmatic woman, saint, and mystic. Hildegard of bingen was one of the most remarkable women of the middle agesan abbess and woman of god, a visionary, naturalist, playwright, political moralist, and composer. For additional general information on hildegard music, see our post of the same name. Voice, choir, unison, suitable for solo or choral performance, with or without drone instruments.

While hildegards music was composed primarily with voices in mind either solo or unison choral singing, many of these chants are quite effective when played instrumentally. Her belief in the greening of man, or viriditas as she called it, led her to trust that god had given mankind herbs, spices, and foods to serve our bodies and keep us not only healthy but full of joy and peace. Hildegard, the first composer whose biography is known, was one of the most remarkable and forceful individuals in medieval europe. Hildegard of bingen, whose feast day we celebrate with vigor every september 17, was not only a brilliant composer, artist, and visionary, she was also an herbalist. Hildegard offers special, lower prices on our most popular and important publications. Barbara stuehlmeyer, a foremost expert on hildegards music.

With patricia routledge, janet suzman, peter vaughan, amanda root. If you want some type of accompaniment, you can use a drone. Hildegard is proud to be the leading publisher of vocal music by women composers. The high quality of her broad range of activities has assured her a prominent place in western civilization many centuries later. Voice teachers today find that its important to include repertoire by women composers among the study works and recital pieces that they assign for their students. In germany, the study and practice of her holistic healing remedies and philosophy is a growing rapidly. Hildegard of bingen music can take some getting usedto it is said that her music contains light in the highest vibration, which can overwhelm the soul.

Her prolific contributions transcended her theological. All the music here is for solo cello, sometimes with vocalizations and electronics added. O tu suavissima virga from sequentias canticles of ecstacy cd. In einer soloperformance prasentiert sie ein abwechslungsreiches. Bingensis september 16, 1098 september 17, 1179 was a german magistra, monastic leader, mystic, author, and composer of music. These titles are individual works and collections that you will want to add to your library. Symphoniae sequentia on allmusic 1985 symphoniae is a reissue of the 1985 sequentia lp. In a solo performance she presents a varied play between vocals, harp, flute. Good documentary on a real genius of almost a thousand years ago. Contemporary appreciation for hildegard in germany. Hildegard of bingen 10981179 was a remarkable woman, a first in many fields. So it is best not to listen to too much at once, but rather to settle into the same piece and play it over a few times in a row in order to truly examine it.

Karen performed this with kronos quartets hank dutt, as part of the stanzas for music. As you can see from the transcriptions, hildegard typically uses the final or fifth of the mode to outline phrases. At a time when few women wrote, hildegard, known as sybil of the rhine, produced major works of theology and visionary writings. Hildegard 1098 17 september 1179 alternative namestransliterations.

A multifaceted artist, musician, author, mathematician and allaround visionary in both the figurative and literal sense meaning she really saw visions. Hildegard of bingen osb also known as saint hildegard and the sibyl of the rhine, was a. Elected a magistra in 16, she founded the monasteries of. Licensed to youtube by sme on behalf of rca red seal. Print instantly, or sync to our free pc, web and mobile apps.