Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum [Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations]

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Cornell University Press, 1998 - Biography & Autobiography - 328 pages

For this revised edition of Hildegard's liturgical song cycle, Barbara Newman has redone her prose translations of the songs, updated the bibliography and discography, and made other minor changes. Also included is an essay by Marianne Richert Pfau which delineates the connection between music and text in the Symphonia.

Famous throughout Europe during her lifetime, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was a composer and a poet, a writer on theological, scientific, and medical subjects, an abbess, and a visionary prophet. One of the very few female composers of the Middle Ages whose work has survived, Hildegard was neglected for centuries until her liturgical song cycle was rediscovered. Songs from it are now being performed regularly by early music groups, and more than twenty compact discs have been recorded.

 

Contents

LIST OF MANUSCRIPTS
64
O vis eternitatis
98
Ave Maria
110
Spiritus sanctus vivificans vita
140
O ignis Spiritus Paracliti
148
O gloriosissimi lux vivens angeli
154
O vos felices radices
160
O speculum columbe
166
O Bonifaci
204
Columba aspexit
212
O pulcre facies
218
O Pater omnium
224
Spiritui sancto
230
Antiphons for Matins
236
O Ecclesia
238
O virgo Ecclesia
250

PATRON SAINTS
172
O mirum admirandum
180
O presul vere civitatis
186
Quia felix puericia
192
Mathias sanctus
198
O Verbum Patris
258
O magna res
264
BIBLIOGRAPHY
321
DISCOGRAPHY
327
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