Jun 30, 2025
St. Hildegard of Bingen,
12th-century abbess, mystic, polymath, and Physician of the
Church, is greatest recognized to non-Catholics for one thing else – her
music. We’ve got extra items of music by Hildegard than by some other
medieval composer whose title we all know. Her chants are lovely,
otherworldly, virtuosic and forward of their time. A few of them have been
written for her morality play, the Ordo virtutum, which is
additionally the primary of its type. Musicologist Margot Fassler joins the
podcast to debate what makes St. Hildegard’s music so particular.
This episode is a crossover with Means of the
Fathers, the place Dr. Jim Papandrea has completed two episodes introducing
St. Hildegard’s life and writings. Make sure that to hearken to these for
extra context about St. Hildegard.
Hyperlinks
Means of the Fathers episodes on St. Hildegard’s
life and works:
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/512-st-hildegard-bingen-multimedia-visionary/
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/513-st-hildegard-bingen-teutonic-prophetess/
St. Hildegard’s letter to the Prelates of
Mainz
https://digfir-published.macmillanusa.com/mckay11eepages/mckay11eepages_ch9_4.html
Margot Fassler, Cosmos, Liturgy, and the
Arts within the Twelfth Century: Hildegard’s Illuminated Scivias
https://www.pennpress.org/9781512823073/cosmos-liturgy-and-the-arts-in-the-twelfth-century/
All music used with permission from Benjamin
Bagby & Sequentia, who’ve recorded her full works. The
particular items on this episode could be discovered on the albums Ordo
Virtutum, Symphoniae, and Voice of the Blood.
https://www.sequentia.org/tasks/hildegard.html
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