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The Ordo Virtutum, Hildegard von Bingenâs 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 Ordoâs 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 workâs musical design and text. This is achieved primarily through Gardinerâs musical network

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1. A Metaphysical Medieval Assemblage 2. Analytic Introduction 3. Deterritorialized Bodies 4. The Taking-Place of Prayer 5. On Reterritorialization

Hildegard von Bingens Ordo Virtutum A Musical and

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Published 30 June 2020
      ISBN-13 9780367586973
      978-0367586973
      ISBN-10 0367586975
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      Entertainment Art music, orchestral and formal music Music Theory of music and musicology

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The Ordo Virtutum, Hildegard von Bingenâs 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 Ordoâs 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 workâs musical design and text. This is achieved primarily through Gardinerâs musical network

      Table of Contents

      1. A Metaphysical Medieval Assemblage 2. Analytic Introduction 3. Deterritorialized Bodies 4. The Taking-Place of Prayer 5. On Reterritorialization

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