A VOICE OF THE LIVING LIGHT
Hildegard von Bingen
Part 1
26-October-2019
By Ingvild Vinje
I first came across Hildegard of Bingen one and a half decades ago through her music which was introduced to me by a dear friend in Italy where I lived at the time.
I was familiar with monastic Gregorian chants, although they had been with male voices singing in harmony, not female vocals like these.
Hildegard’s medieval hymns were different, her music had a different intoning, like another pitch or vibration and the songs were more complex and multi-faceted.
As the music flowed through me there in that old stone house sitting high up on an enchanting Tuscan hilltop with huge majestic Cypress and Mulberry trees, I was filled with awe.
And with awe follows gratitude.
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