Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the "Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum" (Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations) - Softcover

Hildegard Of Bingen; Barbara Newman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801485479 ISBN 13: 9780801485473

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1998

Synopsis

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, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was a composer and a poet, a writer on theological, scientific, and medical subjects, an abbess, and a visionary prophet. One of the very few female composers of the Middle Ages whose work has survived, Hildegard was neglected for centuries until her liturgical song cycle was rediscovered. Songs from it are now being performed regularly by early music groups, and more than twenty compact discs have been recorded.

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Review:

"An important perspective to understanding Hildegard's life and work as a writer and saint."

Source: Feminist Bookstore News

"This volume raises understanding of Hildegard's liturgical texts to new heights, solving major problems with the sources and situating the works in the broad plains of Hildegard's thought."

Source: Speculum

About the Author:

Barbara Newman is Professor of English, Religion, and Classics and John Evans Professor of Latin at Northwestern University. Her other books include Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine, From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature, Voice of the Living Light, and God and the Goddesses.

Barbara Newman is Professor of English, Religion, and Classics and John Evans Professor of Latin at Northwestern University. Her books include Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine; From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature; Voice of the Living Light; God and the Goddesses, and, from Cornell, the first and second editions of Symphonia.

Barbara Newman is Professor of English, Religion, and Classics and John Evans Professor of Latin at Northwestern University. Her books include Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine; From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature; Voice of the Living Light; God and the Goddesses, and, from Cornell, the first and second editions of Symphonia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0801485479
• ISBN 13: 9780801485473
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 344