Symphonia A Critical Edition of the Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations 1st Edition by Hildegard Of Bingen, Barbara Newman ISBN 978-0801420092 0801420091

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ISBN 10:   0801420091

ISBN 13: 978-0801420092

Author: Hildegard Of Bingen, Barbara Newman

Famous throughout Europe during her lifetime, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was a remarkably gifted woman by any standards: a composer and poet, she was also a writer on scientific, medical and theological subjects, an abbess, a visionary prophet, and a saint of the Roman Catholic church. One of the relatively few female writers and even fewer female composers of the Middle Ages whose work has survived to the present, Hildegard was neglected for centuries after her death. Recently, however, her liturgical song cycle Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum (Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations) has been rediscovered, and pieces from it have been performed by several early music groups.

Barbara Newman here provides both literal prose translations and sensitive verse translations of the songs in the cycle, along with a new edition of the original Latin texts, Newman’s introduction and commentary provide information on Hildegard’s life and on such subjects as the dating of the Symphonia, the theology of music and its use in the monastic liturgy of the twelfth century, medieval musical performance, and poetic styles of the period. Of special interest is an essay by Marianne Richert Pfau which delineates the connection between music and text in the Symphonia.

This edition of the Symphonia will make Hildegard’s work readily accessible to all readers interested in medieval poetry, early music, and the lives of medieval women, as well as to scholars concerned with poetry, musicology, religion, and women’s history.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction
2. List of Manuscripts
3. Order of Songs in the Manuscripts
4. Appendix: The Symphonia and the “Epilogue to the Life of Saint Rupert”
5. Music and Text in Hildegard’s Antiphons
6. Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum: Text and Translations
7. I. Father and Son
8. II. Mother and Son
9. III. The Holy Spirit
10. IV. The Celestial Hierarchy
11. V. Patron Saints
12. VI. Virgins, Widows, and Innocents
13. VII. Saint Ursula and Companions
14. VIII. Ecclesia
15. Four Songs without Music

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