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Project Hildegard #6 (2)

Didn’t expect this one to involve a cello riff – it kind of took on a life of its own 🙂 o clarissima – with cello groove o clarissima mater sancta medicine tu ungenta per sanctum filium tuum infudisti in plangentia vulnera mortis que eva edificavit in tormenta animarum tu destruxisit mortem edificando vitam ora […]

Project Hildegard #6

Here’s one that couldn’t be more appropriate for International Mother’s Day in COVID-19 times. It’s a big one. o clarissima mater sancte medicine – o radiant mother of holy medicine o clarissima mater sancta medicine tu ungenta per sanctum filium tuum infudisti in plangentia vulnera mortis que eva edificavit in tormenta animarum tu destruxisit mortem […]

Project Hildegard #5 (2)

This one was really fun to do. I made a second voice by turning the manuscript upside down and reading the chant from right to left – as if it were in a mirror. o frondons virga – seen in the mirror of fa

Project Hildegard #5

Here’s another one for Spring: o frondons virga – the blossoming branch o frondens virga in tua nobilitate stans sicut aurora procedit nunc gaude et laetare et nos debiles dignare a mala consuetudine liberare atque manum tuam porrige ad erigendum nos And I’ve just had a super idea of how to play with this one! […]

Project Hildegard #4 (2)

Today I decided that this project should cover all 77 of Hildegard von Bingen’s liturgical chants. It’s a rather ambitious aim! Help! Here is the second version of my randomly chosen chant number 4. o viridissima virga 2 – the greenest branch: hope springs eternal O greenest branch, hail, sprung forth in the wind from […]