Music #301 - Hildegard of Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen  

(1098 – 1179, German)
- aka Sibyl of the Rhine (many sought her prophecy)
- aka Saint Hildegard von Bingen (although she was never formally canonized)

She experienced intense visions
 (probably due to migraine), 
which she recorded in her books; 
she came to be known for
 her prophecies and miracles.

She founded a nunnery near Bingen. She was a German writer, composer, philosopher, polymath, Benedictine abbess, Christian mystic, and visionary. Her achievements were remarkable - and unique for a woman of her time.

"Vision", a 2009 movie on Hildegard von Bingen:

In music, her specialist genre was plainsong-equivalent writing of her own poetry.  

Her Ordo Virtutum (Order of the Virtues), a morality play, which describes the sixteen Virtues battling with the Devil, is an early example of liturgical drama and arguably the oldest surviving morality play.  

                       
Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum (Music harmony of celestial revelations) is a collection of lyric and dramatic poetry:

Part 1

Note the nice antiphons (call and response)?