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Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum (Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations)
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, Hildegar
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Published
March 1st 1998
by Cornell University Press
(first published February 1989)
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An excellent historical and musical reference/resource for the works of Hildegard of Bingen.
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A useful book, with Latin and English of Hildegard's highly idiosyncratic verse. My only quibble is with the two English versions given of every poem. The prose version is highly accurate and clear, but the translator privileges her poetic versions, which often gravely distort Hildegard's meaning.
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Blessed Hildegard of Bingen (German: Hildegard von Bingen; Latin: Hildegardis Bingensis) (1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, German Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath. Elected a magistra by her fellow nuns in 1136, she founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and Eibingen in 1165. O...more
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