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Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutum stands as one of the most significant compositions of the twelfth century and one of the first large-scale works by a named composer in Western music history. This comprehensive analysis examines the music-drama's expansive structure, which unfolds across eighty-seven chants and explores the fall of a soul through an array of personified virtues and musical forces. The work's complex imagery and non-biblical narrative have long raised important questions about its genre, context and compositional purpose. Michael C. Gardiner's ambitious examination of the Ordo provides readers with deep insights into how Hildegard von Bingen constructed this remarkable spiritual and musical journey, distinguishing it from earlier works through both its duration and conceptual sophistication. This Routledge publication offers scholars, musicians and music enthusiasts a detailed exploration of a medieval masterpiece that continues to influence understanding of early Western composition and sacred music traditions.

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Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutum is analysed across its eighty-seven chants, revealing the structural and musical strategies that create this medieval masterpiece.

The music-drama deploys personified virtues as characters, creating a unique poetic meditation on spiritual fall that distinguishes it from biblical narratives of the period.

Routledge's publication by Michael C. Gardiner provides scholarly examination of the work's genre, context and place as one of the first large-scale compositions by a named Western composer.

The Ordo's expansive duration and complex imagery receive detailed analysis, exploring how Hildegard von Bingen achieved musical sophistication in twelfth-century sacred composition.

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Release Date
28 August 2018
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30 August 2016

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