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Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutum: A Musical and Metaphysical Analysis (Book preview)

Hildegard von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum A Musical and Metaphysical Analysis Michael C. Gardiner VOUCHERS Hildegard von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum 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 entire work, Michael C. Gardiner for the first time 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

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Hildegard of Bingen

German Benedictine nun, mystic, composer and writer (c. 1098–1179)

In this medieval name, the personal name is Hildegard and Bingen is an appellation or descriptor. There is no family name.

Saint Hildegard of Bingen OSB
Illumination from Hildegard's Scivias (1151) showing her receiving a vision and dictating to teacher Volmar
Born	Hildegard von Bingen c. 1098 Bermersheim vor der Höhe, County Palatine of the Rhine, Holy Roman Empire
Died	17 September 1179(1179-09-17) (aged 81) Bingen am Rhein, County Palatine of the Rhine, Holy Roman Empire
Venerated in	Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Lutheranism
Beatified	26 August 1326 (Formal confirmation of Cultus) by Pope John XXII
Canonized	10 May 2012 (equivalent canonization), Vatican City by Pope Benedict XVI
Major shrine	St. Hildegard, Eibingen
Feast	17 September
Philosophy career
Notable work
Era	Medieval philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Neoplatonism
Main interests	mystical theology, medicine, botany, natural history, music, literature
Notable ideas	Microcosm–macrocosm analogy, Eternal predestination of Christ, viriditas, Lingua ignota, humoral theory, morality play

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