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Hildegard von Bingen''s Ordo Virtutum: A Musical and Metaphysical Analysis

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By (author): Michael Gardiner

The Ordo Virtutum, Hildegard von Bingens twelfth-century music-drama, is one of the first known examples of a large-scale composition by a named composer in the Western canon. Not only does the Ordos expansive duration set it apart from its precursors, but also its complex imagery and non-biblical narrative have raised various questions concerning its context and genre. As a poetic meditation on the fall of a soul, the Ordo deploys an array of personified virtues and musical forces over the course of its eighty-seven chants. In this ambitious analysis of the work, Michael C. Gardiner examines how classical Neoplatonic hierarchies are established in the music-drama and considers how they are mediated and subverted through a series of concentric absorptions (absorptions related to medieval Platonism and its various theological developments) which lie at the core of the works musical design and text. This is achieved primarily through Gardiners musical network model, which implicates mode into a networked system of nodes, and draws upon parallels with the medieval interpretation of Platonic ontology and Hildegards correlative realization through sound, song, and voice.

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  • Weight: 450g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Jun 2020
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780367586973

About Michael Gardiner

Michael C. Gardiner is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Mississippi USA.

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