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    Hildegard's Spiritual Music
    Hildegard's Spiritual Music
    Hildegard's Spiritual Music
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    Hildegard's Spiritual Music

    By Elizabeth Ellen

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    This book is comprises of three pieces of writing on the spirituality expressed in the music, texts and art of 12th century Benedictine nun, Hildegard of Bingen. It explores the unique voice and embodied feminine visions within a broadly feminist conceptual framework.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateJan 12, 2017
    ISBN9781483591476
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      Hildegard's Spiritual Music - Elizabeth Ellen

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      ISBN: 9781483591476

      Table of Contents

      Cover

      Title

      Copyright

      Preface

      I. Seeking Hildegard

      II. Contextualising Hildegard

      III. The Marian Songs

      Notes

      PREFACE

      These writings explore the unique and deeply creative, spiritual individual of the twelfth century Christian mystic , Hildegard of Bingen. They delve into her lived imaginary, her inner world in which she expresses her spiritual experiences. This inner world is what lives in her art and thought. This is expressed in her thought, her images that is an illustration of this and further, in her music, her liturgical songs. I use the word music in the broadest term possible. This is as a sounding of cosmic worlds meaning the deep spiritual resonance in her work

      Although I have, to some extent brought feminist ideas to her work, I do so as an act of transcribing the essence of her art and with an intent of celebrating the deep spirituality that resides. The divine feminine has a strong presence in her work, among her cosmology that is Christian by some understandings. She speaks, I believe as a woman leading other women in a spiritual life. From this perspective, her place in history needs no critique of culture. I would like it to stand as knowledge flowing through my own lens as a twenty-first century woman who is also, deeply into feminine spiritual practice.

      The first piece, seeking Hildegard, was spoken at a conference to her honour and asks the audience to join me in that seeking of what she can be, as an inner experience and image of the divine feminine. It draws on my experiences seeking Hildegard in the landscape where she lived her life, along the deep waters of the meandering Rhine.of Germany. Further, within a church echoing with her resonant song and in the endless silent corridors of academic libraries.

      The next piece is intending to explore her theology as expressed in her written works and images portrayed in Scivias or know the ways. I do this bringing this together with feminist ideas of divinity that attempt to write her religious symbolic into our post-modernity. Her theology is permeated by the theme of virititas or greening that express flourishing and fecundity.

      The last piece is an exploration and analysis of her music with songs that contains her images of the virgin, known as the Marion songs. I attempt a deepening of feminist ideas, through , most particularly the feminine imaginary from the french feminist, Luce Irigaray. The intention is to find the concepts that can extend and open up the creative possibilities of understandings, particularly as an embodied knowledge. For this piece I sought to speak from an embodied knowledge and therefore learnt and sang all the songs presented so as to live into their deeper structures and intent, as music as a spiritual practice.

      The sacred feminine lived through Hildegard’s work in spite of her being part of the Patriarchal world that surrounded her. Her work is an exquisite oeuvre whose richness reveals hidden depths of spiritual meaning and imagination. May the spirit in her work live on, to be held with wonder , celebrated and enjoyed.

      I. SEEKING HILDEGARD

      This afternoon, I would like to present some possibilities of some explorations into the knowledge, art and mind of Hildegard of Bingen.

      I stand here perplexed and somewhat overwhelmed at the enormity of the task; yet deeply inspired as I have been over years with her art. And in this, we stand before what is a mystery, before the door of a mystery, sensing with a long in breath what

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