Profil's album of the music of Hildegard von Bingen includes 12 songs in honor of Mary taken from the Dendermonde Codex, a manuscript prepared under Hildegard's supervision that contains 58 of her 77 liturgical compositons. The music of the codex is notated as monophonic melodies, and Ensemble Mediatrix, led by Johannes Berchmans Göschl, performs the antiphons, responsoria, hymns, and sequences just as written. The subject of historically informed performance practice as it relates to the music of Hildegard is fraught with ...
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Profil's album of the music of Hildegard von Bingen includes 12 songs in honor of Mary taken from the Dendermonde Codex, a manuscript prepared under Hildegard's supervision that contains 58 of her 77 liturgical compositons. The music of the codex is notated as monophonic melodies, and Ensemble Mediatrix, led by Johannes Berchmans Göschl, performs the antiphons, responsoria, hymns, and sequences just as written. The subject of historically informed performance practice as it relates to the music of Hildegard is fraught with contradictory opinions. Because of lack of detail in the manuscripts, it is based largely on speculation, but it is further complicated by the scrupulously documented details of the composer's colorful personality. Hildegard's flouting of traditional thinking in practically every aspect of her life, including the disregard of modal and melodic conventions in her wildly original music, certainly leaves open the door to the possibility that her own performances did not conform to...
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