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Hildegard Of Bingen Analysis
For the first listener's guide I chose to listen to the piece Hildegard of Bingen: O vis aeternitatis. This piece is very calm and sweet. It had a relaxing and soothing tone to it. The music is just gorgeous and powerful. It was a very simple piece that was compelling to hear.
Hildegard was one of the most prominent composers from the middle ages. Hildegard's music rises to the level of sacrament from the divine of grace to the heavenly choirs down to us. Not only she was a composer, she was a writer, and a philosopher.
The instrumentation used in this piece is a women's choir which all sing in soprano. The singers in the piece blend together so perfectly creating a unified powerful texture to the piece. The tempo was basically slow throughout
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