Some students noticed the posters I put up in the music room of different musical time periods, then pointed out that we haven’t heard anything from the Medieval/Renaissance Periods…so here we are with another great female composer in Western music: Hildegard von Bingen. This is the time period when musicians started to develop music notation (symbols and charts that help musicians share music on paper rather than learn songs by ear). Listen to how the music flows more freely compared to the other metered music we’ve studied

Some of her surviving works:
– Hymns & Songs
– O Quam Mirabilis (O How Wonderful)
– O tu illustrata (O Your Angels)
– Ordo Virtutum (Play of the Virtues)
– Ave, generosa (Hail, Generous)
– Vox Cosmica (The Voice of the Cosmic)