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Example 4.1 > hildegard, o rubor sanguinis !YCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
O ru - bor san - gui - nis / qui de ex - cel - so !YCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
il - lo flu - -
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- xi - sti / quod di - vi - ni - tas te - ti - git:/
!YCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC tuflos es /quem hy - - emsde fla - - tuser - pen - - tis /num -
!YCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - quam le - sit.
Listening Cue
Hildegard of Bingen, O rubor sanguinis (c. 1150)
Genre: Chant
Texture: Monophonic
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what to listen for: A transcendental experience. Does the absence of instruments and a beat relax you—allow you to
“defocus”? Does Hildegard’s chant carry you away, too, like “a feather floating on the breath of God”?
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Music in the Cathedral
The future of art music within the Church lay not in isolated monasteries, however, but in city-based cathedrals (Figure 4.3). Monasteries were rural, inward looking, and run by an abbot; cathedrals were urban, outward looking, and ruled by a bishop. The job of the bishop and his clergy was to administer to the spiritual needs of the citizens of the expanding urban centers. During the twelfth century, cities such as Milan, Paris, and London, among others, grew significantly, as trade and commerce increased. Much of the commercial wealth generated in the cities was used to construct splendid new cathedrals that served as both houses of worship and municipal civic centers. So substantial was this building campaign that the period 1150–1350 is often called the “Age of the Cathedrals.” It started in northern France with cathedrals possessing elements of what we now call the Gothic style: pointed
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