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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Saint Hildegard
Hildegard was a weak and sickly child, and in consequence received but little education at home.
Here also Hildegard was given but little instruction since she was much afflicted with sickness, being frequently scarcely able to walk and often deprived even of the use of her eyes.
Jutta died in 1136, and Hildegard was appointed superior.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/07351a.htm   (2171 words)

  
 ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies--Hildegard von Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen is widely known for her extraordinary works and her accomplishments in the fields of music, poetry, theology, the visual arts, and the natural sciences.
Hildegard of Bingen was born to noble parents in the year 1098 at Bermersheim in the Rhineland as the youngest of ten children and was offered to the church as a small child.
Hildegard built pieces around all four possible finals (d, e, f, and g) and two cofinals (a and c), but e – a mode often described as unstable in medieval music – is the most common modal center of her music.
the-orb.net /encyclop/culture/music/mather.htm   (6481 words)

  
 Patron Saints Index: Blessed Hildegard von Bingen
Hildegard was born the 10th child (a tithe) to a noble family.
After Jutta's death, when Hildegard was 38 years of age, she was elected the head of the budding convent, but continued to live in her anchorage.
Hildegard was critical of schismatics, and preached against them her whole life, working especially against the Cathars.
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/sainth05.htm   (810 words)

  
 Hildegard of Bingen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hildegard was born into a family of nobles in the service of the counts of Sponheim, close relatives of the Hohenstaufen emperors.
Upon Jutta's death in 1136 Hildegard was chosen magistra of the community, and eventually moved the group to a new monastery on the Rupertsberg at Bingen on the Rhine.
Hildegard was one of the first saints for which the canonization process was officially applied, but the process took so long that all four attempts at canonization (the last was in 1244, under Pope Innocent IV) were not completed, and remained at her beatification.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen   (1429 words)

  
 SCARLET MUSIC - HILDEGARD INTERVIEW WITH OHANNESON
Hildegard was a cloistered nun whose spirit soared to the galaxies.
Hildegard was a noblewoman who healed paupers, it is written, but she was also a defender of the faith who publicly excoriated heretics.
Hildegard, born in 1098, was the tenth child of noble parents.
www.hildegard-scarletmusic.com /Interview.htm   (1442 words)

  
 HILDEGARD'S MUSIC
Hildegard's music can only be fully understood in the light of all her work.
Hildegard combined all her music into a cycle called "The Symphony of the Harmony of the Heavenly Revelations." This title refers not only to the heavenly inspiration of her music but to the place music held in her schema as the highest form of praise to God.
Hildegard often uses melismatic or decorative passages to articulate form, to animate the line, to create agile, supple melodies and to separate sections of pieces.
www.uni-mainz.de /~horst/hildegard/music/music.html   (1604 words)

  
 Hildegard 4
According to her writings, Hildegard thought that music was an extremely important way to evoke the joy and beauty of the original paradise.
This may be why Hildegard said, “There is power in eternity and it is green.” [7] Hildegard also felt it was necessary to adjust the lives of the sick people under her care in order to reflect restraint and measure.
Some researchers are surprised that Hildegard’s attitude was generally positive in describing relations between the sexes, and she was probably the first writer to take the woman’s point of view.
members.gcnet.net /lkohut/hildegard_4.htm   (2849 words)

  
 Hildegard 2
Hildegard of Bingen was born in 1098 CE, the tenth and youngest child of a rich German family.
Hildegard’s foster mother, Jutta, became famous as a healer, enjoying an excellent relationship with both the religious and secular communities and spending much time in fasting, prayers, vigils, and denying the flesh.
Fox, Mathew, “Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen, ‘The Communion of Saints in Cosmic Symphony,’ ” n.d.
members.gcnet.net /lkohut/hildegard_2.htm   (2335 words)

  
 hildegard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hildegard herself corresponded by means of epistles with Bernard, and in 1147 he, too, her still incomplete opus, the Scivias, to the Cistercian Pope Eugenius III at the Synod of Trier for his examination and approval.
Hildegard, in the midst of this tradition, is an anomaly in preferring allegory to Gospel or saints' legends.
Hildegard herself attempted to impose such a drama as therapy in the case of Sigewize of Cologne, the young woman possessed by a demon who called Hildegard the vetula Scrumpilgardis, 'old lady Wrinklegard', while pleading for her aid.
www.umilta.net /hildegard.html   (4541 words)

  
 Leisa McCord:Music
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was a woman of extraordinary vision and accomplishment.
Hildegard also composed 77 chants and a morality play for her nuns to sing.
I was introduced to Hildegard's music a few years ago by Honey Meconi, formerly the Director of Medieval Studies in the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University (Houston, Texas).
www.leisamccord.com /music.html   (357 words)

  
 Hildegard of Bingen
After Jutta's death, when Hildegard was 38 years of age, she was elected the head of the budding convent living within cramped walls of the anchorage.
Hildegard's writings are also unique for their generally positive view of sexual relations and her description of pleasure from the point of view of a woman.
Hildegard wrote hymns and sequences in honor of saints, virgins and Mary.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/med/hildegarde.html   (2081 words)

  
 Hildegard von Bingen - A discography
Coro Hildegard von Bingen - Tiziana Fumagalli, dir.
Hildegard von Bingen - Gesänge (Hildegard Liederband / Ordo Virtutum)
The Lauds of Saint Ursula - Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
www.medieval.org /emfaq/composers/hildegard.html   (6782 words)

  
 Hildegard Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Twelfth-century Rhineland mystic Hildegard von Bingen records her exquisite encounter with divinity, producing a magnificent fusion of divine inspiration and human intellect.
One of the most remarkable women of her day, Hildegard was, for more than 30 years, an unflinching advisor and correspondent of all levels of church and society, from popes and kings to ordinary lay persons, from...
Hildegard of Bingen was one of the most remarkable women of the Middle Ages, whose writings, pictures, and music are now enjoying a renaissance.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Hildegard   (966 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Hildegard of Bingen: Books: S. Flanagan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hildegard was a unique and remarkable woman of the 12th century who began the austere life of a religious at the age of eight.
Just as Hildegard "sought to understand the world in all its aspects, natural, human and divine," this biography approaches her life from a scholarly viewpoint, seeking to interpret her visionary knowledge from a modern perspective.
Hildegard certainly was a fascinating person, and this is a very informative book about her life and works.
www.amazon.com /Hildegard-Bingen-S-Flanagan/dp/0415185513   (1528 words)

  
 Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard was the tenth child of of a noble German family.
In 1147, Hildegard was still concerned, not about the truth of her visions, but about whether they should be published, so she wrote to Bernard, abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Clairvaux.
In Part 1, Hildegard speaks of the external world, but always with reference to human health (e.g., the kinds of water that are safe to drink); Part 2 is on illnesses and their causes, Parts 3 and 4 on cures, and most of Part 5 on symptoms to be looked for.
home.infionline.net /~ddisse/hildegar.html   (10827 words)

  
 Hildegard Knef - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef (December 28, 1925 - February 1, 2002) was a German actress, singer and writer.
The incident in the latter film sparked one of the largest scandals in German filmmaking history and drew the criticism of the Roman Catholic Church.
Hildegard Knef was one of the most important actresses of post-war Germany.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hildegard_Knef   (310 words)

  
 Hildegard Peplau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hildegard Peplau was born in Reading Pennsylvania on September 1st, 1909.
She later received a B.A. in interpersonal psychology from Bennington College, Vermont, in 1943, an M.A. in psychiatric nursing from Teachers College, Columbia, New York, in 1947, and an Ed.D in curriculum development from Columbia in 1953.
During World War II Hildegard Peplau was a member of the Army Nurse Corps and worked in a neuropsychiatric hospital in London, England.
publish.uwo.ca /~cforchuk/peplau/hpcb.html   (242 words)

  
 Hildegard of Bingen at Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base
Drawing on contemporary sources, the text unfolds Hildegard's life from the time of her entrance into an anchoress's cell to her death as a famed visionary and writer, abbess and confidante of popes and kings, more than seventy years later.
This new edition includes: a new preface, additions to the biographical sections which reveal new discoveries about Hildegard's life, updated references to the latest critical material on Hildegard's writings, and a new bibliography and discography.
A conference on the 900th anniversary of the birth of Hildegard of Bingen
www.erraticimpact.com /~medieval/html/hildegard_of_bingen.htm   (422 words)

  
 frontline: apocalypse!: primary sources: hildegard's scivias
Hildegard (1098-1179) was a Benedictine abbess who documented her allegorical visions and apocalyptic prophecies in text and illuminations.
Her most famous work, written over the course of ten years (1141-51).
In this excerpt, Hildegard describes her vision of the devil embodied as a monstrous worm.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/apocalypse/primary/scivias.html   (1644 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/wunderkammern
You folks are probably making your way to the great beery North by now, and that's an event that leaves me sadder than you know.
For me this has truly been a historic Summer of Hildegard.
The tour and the subsequent recording sessions and all around camraderie have made an indelible impression on me that will last a long time.
www.myspace.com /wunderkammern   (593 words)

  
 Scarlet Music: A Life of Hildegard of Bingen, A Novel by Joan Ohanneson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Scarlet Music: A Life of Hildegard of Bingen, A Novel by Joan Ohanneson
In breathtaking prose, Joan Ohanneson has crafted an unforgettable encounter with Hildegard, the astonishing visionary and prophet, artist and healer, whose music is sweeping the charts today.
Weaving into her text Hildegard's own vivid accounts of "the Living Light," the author brings to life the "feather on the breath of God" - Hildegard of Bingen, who shattered stereotypes of women, of saints, and of God for all time.
www.hildegard-scarletmusic.com   (115 words)

  
 Who is Hildegard?
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 Hildegard von Bingen Links Page
The self portrait of Hildegard was drawn by Rodney Caines
(the original Latin texts Hildegard wrote,and English translations)
I believe that singing, chanting, toning, prayer and healing are all one and the same.
www.healingchants.com /hvb_links.html   (110 words)

  
 SourceForge.net: Hildegard
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Hildegard is a music theory engine that will analyze music based on various theoretical systems.
Users can stick to common theoretical systems or write their own with an extension language.
sourceforge.net /projects/hildegard   (102 words)

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