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Ildegarda di Bingen: the visionary Middle Ages musician
The Bingen Ladegarda of German nationality was a Benedictine religious. He was born in 1098 and died in 1179. I would like to dedicate this important article as this famous Holy Saint paid homage to the whole world with the first musical works of Christian history. Anticonformist and strong of a great spiritual inspiration, Hildegard von Bingen contains three fundamental parts in his works, images, texts and music to such an extent that his masterpieces can be defined as futuristic and multimedia. According to Hildegard von Bingen, the human soul was the symphonic representation and the balance between body and soul, to the point that music became a part and descriptive element within its musical works.
The music of Ildegarda di Bingen
The music according to Ildegarda di Bingen was the union between the celestial whole (paradise) and the terrestrial set (man) which led to the conception of a new placement of the body as not so much fulcrum of the contempt, but as a means and bearer of expression of the Divine Celeste. He wrote 77 songs and the first musical drama of the story entitled "The Ritual of the Virtues" .
In one of his many autobiographical legacies he wrote that all his compositions were written without knowing anything about music and singing. The music and songs written by Bingen's Ildegarda were new compositional lifeblood for that period, the voice became the means to be able to express a new compositional conception dictated by the ampiliary the extension bringing it from about an eighth to two octaves.
I conclude this short mirror by defining Ildegarda di Bingen a champion of the song and a person who has known with his spirituality to change and transform the concept of art and music according to the Christian religious conception of that period. If you want, I recommend you watch the video attached to better understand the beauty of this woman.
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