Hildegard Of Bingen Analysis
For the first listener's guide I chose to listen to the piece Hildegard of Bingen: O vis aeternitatis. This piece is very calm and sweet. It had a relaxing and soothing tone to it. The music is just gorgeous and powerful. It was a very simple piece that was compelling to hear.
Hildegard was one of the most prominent composers from the middle ages. Hildegard's music rises to the level of sacrament from the divine of grace to the heavenly choirs down to us. Not only she was a composer, she was a writer, and a philosopher.
The instrumentation used in this piece is a women's choir which all sing in soprano. The singers in the piece blend together so perfectly creating a unified powerful texture to the piece. The tempo was basically slow throughout
the entire piece. I noticed that the music piece and a great change in volume. When they began a sentence they would be soft-piano and during the climax of the phrase it would be loud going to a crescendo. By doing this, it created a powerful ascending and plunging of the piece.
It is evident that O vis aeternitatis is religious because it talks about God and Adam. There is a part in the piece where it says “que Omnia ordinesti in corde tuo” which means you who ordered all things in your heart with things that have be created, just as you willed. And Hildegard is saying that the “You” is being referred to God. It is sung in Latin which makes it seem that it is sung in church sing they only sang the songs in Latin.
Not only her music was influential, Hildegard was influential to women. She had displayed feminists traits in some of her writing. She also contributed to being one of the best Christian philosopher in my opinion. Not only did she practice the her works through writings and music pieces but in theology. She had continued to preach her beliefs and traveled until she had died in 1179. Hildegard is definitely someone to be remembered in the Middle Ages.
Hildegard was one of the most prominent composers from the middle ages. Hildegard's music rises to the level of sacrament from the divine of grace to the heavenly choirs down to us. Not only she was a composer, she was a writer, and a philosopher.
The instrumentation used in this piece is a women's choir which all sing in soprano. The singers in the piece blend together so perfectly creating a unified powerful texture to the piece. The tempo was basically slow throughout
the entire piece. I noticed that the music piece and a great change in volume. When they began a sentence they would be soft-piano and during the climax of the phrase it would be loud going to a crescendo. By doing this, it created a powerful ascending and plunging of the piece.
It is evident that O vis aeternitatis is religious because it talks about God and Adam. There is a part in the piece where it says “que Omnia ordinesti in corde tuo” which means you who ordered all things in your heart with things that have be created, just as you willed. And Hildegard is saying that the “You” is being referred to God. It is sung in Latin which makes it seem that it is sung in church sing they only sang the songs in Latin.
Not only her music was influential, Hildegard was influential to women. She had displayed feminists traits in some of her writing. She also contributed to being one of the best Christian philosopher in my opinion. Not only did she practice the her works through writings and music pieces but in theology. She had continued to preach her beliefs and traveled until she had died in 1179. Hildegard is definitely someone to be remembered in the Middle Ages.