Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

sensory impressions (specially implicating the sense of smell), conspire to produce an immensity of
feeling one associates with revelation rather than reflection. Unlike the elegant, urbane creations of the
Victorines, Hildegard’s is a lyricism of mystical immediacy. (Nor is this the last time French and German
“schools” will be so differentiated.)

FIG.    3-4 Hildegard   of  Bingen, the twelfthcentury  abbess  of  Rupertsberg,    writing down    her visions (or,    possibly,   her chants).

The illustration    comes   from    a   manuscript  of  her treatise    Scivias (“Know  the ways    of  the Lord”)  called  the Codex   Rupertsberg.

It  disappeared during  World   War II.

EX. 3-10    Hildegard   of  Bingen, Columba aspexit