Through this window, Hildegard heard the form of the music, deciphered the eight modes and absorbed the subtle match of text and sound.This means that the nuns chanted for almost 4 hours a day.RESPONSORIES: this is Hildegard's second largest number of chants.SEQUENCES: this music is sung during mass between the alleluia and gospel.HYMNS: These are devotional pieces composed with or without melodic repetition.It had just been invented a little over a hundred years before Hildegard.DRAMATIC FLOURISHES Hildegard's chants contrast neumatic and melismatic passages.Hildegard often uses melismatic or decorative passages to articulate form, to animate the line, to create agile, supple melodies and to separate sections of pieces.De Spiritu Sancto and O Virtus Sapientiae.Includes music by Hildegard's contemporary Peter Abelard.Lyrichord LEMS 8027 "Hildegard von Bingen: Heavenly Revelations."September 1179), also known as Blessed Hildegard and Saint Hildegard, was a German abbess, artist, author, counselor, linguist, naturalist, scientist, philosopher, physician, herbalist, poet, activist, visionary, and composer.She wrote theological, botanical, and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, poems, and the first surviving morality play, while supervising brilliant miniature illuminations.From the time she was very young, Hildegard wrote, she experienced visions.Perhaps due to Hildegard's visions, or as a method of political positioning, Hildegard's parents, Hildebert and Mechthilde, offered her as a tithe to the church at the age of eight.Upon Jutta's death in 1136, Hildegard was unanimously elected as "magistra," or leader of her sister community.Saint Rupertsberg at Bingen on the Rhine in 1150, where Volmar served as provost.Jutta, who in turn told Volmar, Hildegard's tutor and, later, secretary and scribe.In addition to music, Hildegard also wrote medical, botanical, and geological treatises.In these volumes, works in progress until her death in 1179, she first describes each vision, then interprets them.When a woman is making love with a man, a sense of heat in her brain, which brings with it sensual delight, communicates the taste of that delight during the act and summons forth the emission of the man's seed.In Scivias Book II Vision Six.God united man and woman, thus joining the strong to the weak, that each might sustain the other.But these perverted adulterers change their virile strength into perverse...