Saturday, November 13, 2021

LXXIII. HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: Veni creator spiritus

LXXIII. HILDEGARD OF BINGEN (1098-1179)

Veni creator spiritus (?)
ANONYMOUS 4
(4:31)

I knew I'd get to the 12th century eventually.

Born almost 1,000 years ago, it's incredible that we know so much about her:

Wikipedia.

Illlumination from the Liber Scivias showing Hildegard receiving a vision and dictating to her scribe and secretary

A German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and polymath of the High Middle Ages.

Her compositions are monophonic, meaning there is no harmony. That would come later with organum.

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