SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

QUOTE:
"To study music we must learn the rules.
  To create music, we must break them."

AUTHOR: Nadia Boulanger

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"You should not break music rules accidentally; only
  break them deliberately for artistic reasons."

COMPOSER:

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

PASSION

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfdNqGWIqdg

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

QUOTE:
"Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not
  money, can make them happy. I speak from experience."

AUTHOR: Ludwig van Beethoven

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"If you cant live with yourself because you act in a way contrary to 

  your ethics all the money in the world will not make you happy."

COMPOSER: 

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

PRAISE FOR THE MOTHER
[O VIRGA AC DIADEMA]
VISION

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

QUOTE:
"Music is an outburst of the soul."

AUTHOR: Frederick Delius

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Music is not just organized sound, it is
  an expression of the human condition.”

COMPOSER:

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

LIVING LIGHT

ENCHANTED VOICES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI4XUUG4OMo

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

QUOTE:
"An American or Europeon can composer, for example,
  now has access to the music of various Asian,
  African, and South American cultures."

AUTHOR: George Crumb

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Because of mass communication, composers know
  more about music from other cultures for which
  they can incorporate into their own music."

COMPOSER:

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

O RUBOR SANGUINIS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2j_t1o_g5U&feature=related

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

QUOTE:
"It's a very ancient saying, but a true and honest thought,
  that if you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught."

AUTHOR: Oscar Hammerstein II

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"An intelligent person knows that you can always learn
  something from every situation and people you meet."

COMPOSER:

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

SPIRITUI SANCTO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj5evMsoT5k

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

QUOTE:
"A good composer does not imitate; he steals."

AUTHOR: Igor Stravinsky

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"There are no new ideas only old ones which are
   combined to form new combinations. The better
   composers study the music of many others
   giving them a larger selection of ideas to use."

COMPOSER:

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

AVE GENEROSA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fRN7Czrs8Q

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

QUOTE:
"Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it
  through their feet instead of their brains."

AUTHOR: John Philip Sousa

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"The style of jazz is meant to be felt through
  movement; that is what attracts people to it."

COMPOSER:

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

CANTICLES OF ECSTACY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSr490hUG3c

Canticle

A song or chant, especially a non metrical

hymn with words taken from a biblical text

other than from the Book of Psalms.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

QUOTE:
"Every kind of music is good,
  except the boring kind."

AUTHOR: Gioacchino Rossini

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Many people think that music they don't like is boring but….

  what is boring to one might be interesting to another."

COMPOSER:
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

LAUS TRINITATI
(PRAISE TO THE TRINITY)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQLLghurcdE

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

QUOTE:
"Of course I have used dissonance in my time, but
  there has been too much dissonance. Bach used
  dissonance as good salt for his music. Others
  applied pepper, seasoned the dishes more and
  more highly, till all healthy appetites were sick
  and until the music was nothing but pepper."

AUTHOR: Sergei Prokofiev

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Dissonance in music (different sounds that do not
  blend pleasantly together) should be used like spices
  are used in food; overuse will spoil the product."

COMPOSER:

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnfv1LUMaBA

Veni Creator Spiritus

("Come Creator Spirit") is a Catholic hymn believed

to have been written in the 9th century. It is often

sung at occasions such as the entrance of Cardinals

to the Sistine Chapel, when electing a new pope,

as well as at the consecration of bishops, the

ordination of priests, when celebrating the sacrament

of Confirmation, the dedication of churches, the

celebration of synods or councils, the coronation of

kings, the profession of members of religious

institutes and other similar solemn events.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15341a.htm

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

QUOTE:
"A man only becomes wise when he begins to
  calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance."

AUTHOR:  Gian Carlo Menotti

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"A smart person knows he/she does not know
  everything …. That there is always more to learn."

COMPOSER:
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

ORDO VIRTUTUM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGPZWUNwLG0

ORDO VIRTUTUM

(Latin for Order of the Virtues) is an allegorical

morality play, or liturgical drama, by Hildegard

of Bingen, composed c. 1151. It is the earliest

morality play by more than a century, and the

only Medieval musical drama to survive with an

attribution for both the text and the music.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

QUOTE:
"Nothing right can be accomplished
  in art without enthusiasm."

AUTHOR: Robert Schumann

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Art starts out in the artists soul inwardly. The
  art can not be expressed outwardly without
  the willingness of the artist to work hard."

COMPOSER:

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

VISION:
O EUCHARI IN LETA VIA

O Euchari In Leta Vita

This religious piece was written in honor of

St. Eucharius, the missionary to the Gauls,

the first bishop of the city, and the man who

laid the cornerstone to Trier Cathedral, the

oldest cathedral north of the Alps. Hildegard

probably wrote the music and poetry for

the monks of the monastery in Trier

devoted to his worship.

This Sequence would have been sung during

Mass on Eucharius' feast day, December 8.

1. MUSIC NOTATION DEVELOPED IN THE

CHURCH DURING THE MEDIEVAL TIMES

AS A WAY OF PRESERVING THE MUSIC

WRITTEN FOR THE RELIGIOUS SERVICES

AS THERE HAD NOT BEEN RECORDING

DEVICES INVENTED YET

2. EARLY NOTES WERE CALLED NEUMES

3. LINES and SPACES OF THE MUSICAL

STAFF WERE PATTERNED AFTER THE

FINGERS OF THE HAND (FIVE FINGERS

AND FOUR SPACES IN BETWEEN)

4. HILDEGARD WAS A NUN WHO WROTE

MUSIC FOR THE CHURCH ANDTHE

MUSIC SURVIVED BECAUSE SHE WAS

EDUCATED IN MUSIC NOTATION

5. MUCH OF NON-CHURCH (SECULAR)

MUSIC DID NOT SURVIVE FROM THE

MEDIEVAL TIMES BECAUSE THE

AVERAGE PERSON WHO CREATED

THIS MUSIC HAD NO KNOWLEDGE

OF MUSIC NOTATION

6. TODAY OUR KNOWLEDGE OF

MUSIC FROM THIS TIME PERIOD IS

MOSTLY FROM THE CHURCH

MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2015

QUOTE:
"Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten."

AUTHOR: Stephen Sondheim

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"No art is created perfectly the first time."

COMPOSER:
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

CARITAS ABUNDAT IN OMNIA

HILDEGARD QUOTES

A human being is a vessel
that God has built for himself 
and filled with his inspiration

so that his works are perfected in it.

http://www.notable-quotes.com/h/hildegard_of_bingen.html

Just as a mirror, which reflects all things,

is set in its own container,

so too the rational soul is placed

in the fragile container of the body.

In this way, the body is governed

in its earthly life by the soul,

and the soul contemplates

heavenly things through faith.

http://www.notable-quotes.com/h/hildegard_of_bingen.html

O Holy Wisdom, Soaring Power,

encompass us with wings unfurled, 

and carry us, encircling all,

above, below, and through the world.

http://historymedren.about.com/od/quotes/a/quote_hildegard.htm

Every element has a sound,

an original sound from the order of God;

all those sounds unite like

the harmony from harps and zithers.

http://historymedren.about.com/od/quotes/a/quote_hildegard.htm

The earth which sustains humanity

must not be injured,

it must not be destroyed.

 http://historymedren.about.com/od/quotes/a/quote_hildegard.htm

When the words come,

they are merely empty shells

without the music.

They live as they are sung,

for the words are the body

and the music the spirit.

http://historymedren.about.com/od/quotes/a/quote_hildegard.htm

There is the Music of Heaven in all things and

we have forgotten how to hear it until we sing.

http://historymedren.about.com/od/quotes/a/quote_hildegard.htm

Underneath all the texts,

all the sacred psalms and canticles,

these watery varieties of sounds and silences,

terrifying, mysterious, whirling

and sometimes gestating and gentle

must somehow be felt in the pulse,

ebb, and flow of the music that sings in me.

My new song must float like a feather

on the breath of God.

http://thewoundedbird.blogspot.com/2009/09/feast-day-of-hildegard-of-bingen.html

We cannot live in a world

that is interpreted for us by others.

An interpreted world is not a hope.

Part of the terror

is to take back our own listening.

To use our own voice.

To see our own light.

With nature's help,

humankind can set

into creation

all that is necessary

and life sustaining.

http://blog.gaiam.com/quotes/authors/hildegard-von-bingen

The marvels of God

are not brought forth from one's self.

Rather, it is more like a chord,

a sound that is played.

The tone does not come

out of the chord itself, but rather,

through the touch of the Musician.

I am, of course,

the lyre and harp of God's kindness.

http://www.notable-quotes.com/h/hildegard_of_bingen.html

HILDEGARD PICTURES

Hildegard of Bingen
(1098-1179)

• The first woman composer to leave a large number of

works that have survived.

• Abbess of the convent at Rupertsberg.

• A visionary and mystic active in religious and diplomatic affairs

• Composed the first known morality play (Ordo virtutum)

The reliquary containing the relics of St. Hildegard