o ignis spiritus – may the funky spirit be with you The creation process is frustrating, demanding and utterly wonderful. How something starts as one thing and then grows step by step, taking on a life of its own. Someone close to my heart asked me to describe how this one came about. It started […]
o ignis spiritus paracliti I’ve not heard any interpretations of this one sung at pitch. Most people start it on D or F, or even F#. But there are two pretty similar chants to the Holy Spirit that come one after the other in both the Riesencodex and the Dendermonde manuscript, and this one clearly […]
columba aspexit – the dove looked in A poetic ode to Saint Maximinus, with a bit of a groove at the end… The dove looked in through the lattices of the windows, where, before it, a balm exuded from the bright Maximinus. The heat of the sun burned, dazzling in the gloom, whence a jewel […]
columba aspexit This is Hildegard at her most poetic in an ode to Saint Maximinus, Bishop of Trier, whose feast day is coming up on May 29th. I’m really looking forward to revisiting it 🙂 The dove looked in through the lattices of the windows, where, before it, a balm exuded from the incandescent Maximinus. […]
o felix apparicio – harmonics o felix apparicio cum in amico dei ruperto flama vite choruscavit ita quod caritas dei in corde eius fluxit timorem domini amplectens unde etiam agitio eius in supernis civibus floruit.
