Hildegard Von Bingen''s Ordo Virtutum - A Musical and Metaphysical Analysis

Informationen zum Autor Michael C. Gardiner is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Mississippi, USA. Zusammenfassung Michael C. Gardiner examines how classical Neoplatonic hierarchies are established in the Ordo Virtutum, Hildegard von Bingen’s twelfth-century music-drama, and considers how these hierarchies are mediated and subverted through a series of concentric absorptions which lie at the core of the work’s musical design and text. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A Metaphysical Medieval Assemblage 2. Analytic Introduction 3. Deterritorialized Bodies 4. The Taking-Place of Prayer 5. On Reterritorialization

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• Authors: Michael Gardiner, Michael (University of Western Ontario Gardiner, Michael C. Gardiner
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781138288584
• ISBN: 978-1-138-28858-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; MUSIC / General, The arts: general issues, Theory of music & musicology, Renaissance style, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology, Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600), Medieval style, The arts: general topics