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Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations
Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum
Antiphons, responsories, sequences and hymns for the Virgin, the Holy Spirit, the saints of her land (Rupert, Disibod), the virgins and, above all, Saint Ursula. The poetry is free, without rhyme or regular metre, full of images of greenness, light and water ('O nobilissima viriditas', 'O vis aeternitatis', 'Caritas abundat in omnia'); the music, of wide range and long melismas, is the largest collection of monophonic chant by an identified author in the Middle Ages. Since the recordings by Sequentia (1982) and Gothic Voices (1982) it has been part of the repertoire.
Authorship note
Seventy-seven liturgical compositions with music, written throughout her life (many before 1158) and gathered in two manuscripts: the Dendermonde codex (c. 1175) and the Riesencodex. Critical edition of text and music: Barbara Newman (Cornell, 1988/1998).
Editions and translations
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Latín
Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum
Cornell University Press, 1998
Translation: Barbara Newman (ed. y trad. inglesa)
ISBN 9780801485473
1.ª ed. 1988: 9780801420092.
Español
Hildegard of Bingen
Sinfonía de la armonía de las revelaciones celestiales
The Conscious LibrarySinfonía de la armonía de las revelaciones celestiales
Trotta, 2003
Translation: María Isabel Flisfisch
ISBN 9788481646443
Other works by Hildegard of Bingen
- Scivias (Know the Ways) · 1151
- The Book of Life's Merits (The Book of the Rewards of Life) · 1163
- The Book of Divine Works · 1174
- Physica (Book of the Subtleties of Creatures) · 1158
- Causes and Cures · 1158
- Ordo Virtutum (The Play of the Virtues) · 1151
- Unknown Language and Unknown Letters · 1158
- Letters · 1179
- Homilies on the Gospels · 1170
- Minor Works · 1170
- Life of Saint Hildegard · 1187
- Life of Saint Disibod · 1170
- Life of Saint Rupert · 1170
- Explanation of the Rule of Benedict
- An Explanation of the Athanasian Creed
- Solutions to Thirty-Eight Questions · 1176
- On the Excellence of Saint Martin
- Pentachronon, or Mirror of Future Times · 1220
Sources
- Hildegard of Bingen. Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum. Ed. y trad. Barbara Newman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988 (2.ª ed., 1998).
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