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The Medieval Church · c. 1150–1170
Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations
Symphonia
Hildegard of Bingen · 1098–1179
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What it is
Seventy-seven liturgical songs with soaring melodies of her own composition, in a Latin full of invented images — greenness, viridity, the fiery breath of the Spirit.
Why it lasted
The largest surviving body of music by any named composer of the Middle Ages, and by a woman.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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