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03 Nov 03 - 02:23 PM (#1046977) Subject: Hildegard VonBingen-1098-1179 From: open mike i have recently become aware of this amazing woman who lived in germany. more later... |
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03 Nov 03 - 05:08 PM (#1047077) Subject: RE: Hildegard VonBingen-1098-1179 From: Nemesis Only heard the "Vision" album - funked up overdubs .. but I liked it :) Strangely, it had a peculiar effect on aggressive neighbours - after months and months of noise harrassment from them (long story) which deteriorated to the extent that the kids couldn't go out in the garden - put this on one day and watched them scuttle indoors: they couldn't stand it!! Which meant my kids got to play outside unharrassed that day! |
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03 Nov 03 - 05:13 PM (#1047084) Subject: RE: Hildegard VonBingen-1098-1179 From: Bonnie Shaljean There's a beautiful recording of her "A Feather On The Breath Of God" by the medieval ensemble Gothic Voices. Check it out if you haven't heard it. |
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03 Nov 03 - 06:02 PM (#1047112) Subject: RE: Hildegard VonBingen-1098-1179 From: Liz the Squeak There are several CDs of her works available, 'Feather' is a good one for those stressed out moments. There are a few books around too, notably a recipe book of hers, based on the diet the nuns had and full of little snippets of useful information on the mediaeval contemplative life. LTS |
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03 Nov 03 - 06:48 PM (#1047148) Subject: RE: Hildegard VonBingen-1098-1179 From: katlaughing She's been mentioned in a few threads previously. My brother had always told me about her since he's a classical composer and had to study such things. Hers was an Amazing Life! Thanks, kat |
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04 Nov 03 - 04:22 AM (#1047466) Subject: RE: Hildegard VonBingen-1098-1179 From: open mike http://www.healingchants.com/hvb_links.html |
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04 Nov 03 - 04:25 AM (#1047469) Subject: RE: Hildegard VonBingen-1098-1179 From: open mike i hear hildegard was a genius, and a woman ahead of her time... just listened to (and tried to learn how to "burn" a recording of) Canticles of Ecstasy. I hear she was very knowledgeable about medicinal plants, and a prolific composer of music and one of the first know women to do so, and also one of the premier women authors...and the pope asked advice from her. She also had migraines, which were often accompanied by visions... |
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04 Nov 03 - 04:48 AM (#1047481) Subject: RE: Hildegard VonBingen-1098-1179 From: Jeanie She is indeed a fascinating woman. Plenty of links here (mostly in English) from the University of Mainz: Hildegard See also www.hildegard.org - jeanie |
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04 Nov 03 - 04:52 AM (#1047484) Subject: RE: Hildegard VonBingen-1098-1179 From: Jeanie Here's the Mainz link again: Hildegard - jeanie |
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04 Nov 03 - 05:11 AM (#1047497) Subject: RE: Hildegard VonBingen-1098-1179 From: open mike i like the term Hildaguardians... http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PTBrown/ |
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04 Nov 03 - 04:03 PM (#1047916) Subject: RE: Hildegard VonBingen-1098-1179 From: Raedwulf If the "Gothic Voices" version of "Feather..." is the one featuring Emma Kirby, I highly recommend it. It's absolutely superb! |
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04 Nov 03 - 09:29 PM (#1048153) Subject: RE: Hildegard VonBingen-1098-1179 From: poetlady Sequentia recorded her complete works awhile back. I haven't listened to all of it, but what I have heard it wonderful. I love her poetry. It's very beautiful and insightful. |
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05 Nov 03 - 12:13 AM (#1048204) Subject: RE: Hildegard VonBingen-1098-1179 From: LadyJean Hildegarde was a visionary, who advised most of the rich and powerful of Europe. She was one of the German Cannoness nuns, who took vows of chastity and poverty, but not obedience. They were great scholars, writers and calligraphers. Abbesses of convents like Bingen, and Gandersheim were like the great lords of their time, they even struck their own coins. Hildegarde was great. |
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05 Nov 03 - 01:07 AM (#1048220) Subject: RE: Hildegard VonBingen-1098-1179 From: open mike i have heard it said that if she were a he, her story would be more prominent in history. i only recently heard of her, but one day found reference to her in 3 different un-related books! |
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05 Nov 03 - 01:21 PM (#1048532) Subject: RE: Hildegard VonBingen-1098-1179 From: open mike from the liner notes: "The twelfth century is widely referred to as having witnessed a "Renaissance" in the sense of a full cultural flowering, and this reputation is largely due to the exceptional intellectual vigor, philosophical depth and aesthetic brilliance of the monastic arts of the time....at the age of eight, she (Hildegard) lived the cloistered life according to the Benedictine Rule.......As abess of Rupertsberg, Hildegard's authority, fame and creative power increased significantly. Between 1151 and 1158 she was writing and collecting her musical compositions.....she carried out an extensive correspondence with important personalities in eccliastical and temporal circles, as well as turning her energies to compiling encyclopedic works on natural science and the healing arts. In her own time, as in ours, the "Sibyl of the Rhine" amazes those with ears to hear her.... |