[PDF] The Music And Staging Of Hildegard Of Bingens Ordo Virtutum eBook

Author : Jennifer Bain
Publisher :
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Music
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The study of the place of Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo virtutum among the composer's work and in the context of its time. The author deals with performative issues, especially regarding its classification by modern audiences.

Author : Michael Gardiner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,51 MB
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 1351974181

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The Ordo Virtutum, Hildegard von Bingen’s twelfth-century music-drama, is one of the first known examples of a large-scale composition by a named composer in the Western canon. Not only does the Ordo’s expansive duration set it apart from its precursors, but also its complex imagery and non-biblical narrative have raised various questions concerning its context and genre. As a poetic meditation on the fall of a soul, the Ordo deploys an array of personified virtues and musical forces over the course of its eighty-seven chants. In this ambitious analysis of the work, Michael C. Gardiner examines how classical Neoplatonic hierarchies are established in the music-drama and considers how they are mediated and subverted through a series of concentric absorptions (absorptions related to medieval Platonism and its various theological developments) which lie at the core of the work’s musical design and text. This is achieved primarily through Gardiner’s musical network model, which implicates mode into a networked system of nodes, and draws upon parallels with the medieval interpretation of Platonic ontology and Hildegard’s correlative realization through sound, song, and voice.

Author : Julie Anne Sadie
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780393034875

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Throughout history women have been composing music, but their achievements have usually gone unrecognized.

Author : Jennifer Bain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 18,71 MB
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108471358

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This volume explores the extraordinary life and works of Hildegard of Bingen, medieval writer, composer, visionary, and monastic founder.

Author : St. Hildegard of Bingen
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 18,81 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0813231299

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Completed in 1173, The Book of Divine Works (Liber Divinorum Operum) is the culmination of the Visionary’s Doctor’s theological project, offered here for the first time in a complete and scholarly English translation. The first part explores the intricate physical and spiritual relationships between the cosmos and the human person, with the famous image of the universal Man standing astride the cosmic spheres. The second part examines the rewards for virtue and the punishments for vice, mapped onto a geography of purgatory, hellmouth, and the road to the heavenly city. At the end of each Hildegard writes extensive commentaries on the Prologue to John’s Gospel (Part 1) and the first chapter of Genesis (Part 2)—the only premodern woman to have done so. Finally, the third part tells the history of salvation, imagined as the City of God standing next to the mountain of God’s foreknowledge, with Divine Love reigning over all.

Author : Ulrike Wiethaus
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 38,14 MB
Release : 1993-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780815625605

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This work offers interdisciplinary perspectives by women scholars on the diverse cultural contributions of medieval women mystics.

Author : Ronald W. Vince
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 1989-03-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1440808058

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Vince has provided a useful and, for the most part, usable reference work. His introduction should be required reading for anyone approaching medieval theater. Choice Scholars increasingly see medieval theatre as a complex and vital performance medium related more closely to political, religious, and social life than to literature as we know it. Reflecting the current interest in performance, A Companion to the Medieval Theatre presents 250 alphabetically arranged entries offering a panoramic view of European and British theatrical productions between the years 900 and 1550. The volume features 30 essays contributed by an international group of specialists and includes many shorter entries as well as systematic cross-referencing, a chronology, a bibliography, and a full complement of indexes. Major entries focus on the theatres of the principal linguistic areas (the British Isles, France, Germany, Iberia, Italy, Scandinavia, the Low Countries, and Eastern Europe), and on dramatic forms and genres such as liturgical drama, Passion and saint plays, morality plays, folk drama, and Humanist drama. Other articles examine costume, acting, pageantry, and music, and explore the theatrical dimension of courtly entertainment, the dance, and the tournament. Short entries supply information on over one hundred playwrights, directors, actors and antiquarians whose contributions to the theatre have been documented. This informative guide brings new depth to our appreciation of the richness and color of medieval public entertainments and the symbolism and pageantry that were a part of daily life in the Middle Ages. Designed to appeal to general reader, this volume is also an attractive choice for libraries serving students and scholars of theatre history, English and European literatures, medieval history, cultural history, drama, and performance.