Symphonia : : A Critical Edition of the "Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum" (Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations) / / Hildegard of Bingen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Hildegard of Bingen,
• TeilnehmendeR: Newman, Barbara.
• MitwirkendeR: Richert Pfau, Marianne,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: Second Edition
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- List of Manuscripts -- Order of Songs in the Manuscripts -- Appendix The Symphonia and the “Epilogue to the Life of Saint Rupert” -- Music and Text in Hildegard’s Antiphons -- Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum: TEXT AND TRANSLATIONS -- 1. FATHER AND SON -- II. MOTHER AND SON -- III. THE HOLY SPIRIT -- IV. THE CELESTIAL HIERARCHY -- V. PATRON SAINTS -- VI. VIRGINS, WIDOWS, AND INNOCENTS -- VII. SAINT URSULA AND COMPANIONS -- VIII. ECCLESIA -- FOUR SONGS WITHOUT MUSIC -- Commentary -- Bibliography -- Discography