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Canticles of Ecstasy is an album of sacred vocal music written in the 12th century by the German abbess Hildegard of Bingen and recorded by the early music ensemble Sequentia that was released by the Deutsche Harmonia Mundi recording label in 1993.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 16 relations: Abbess, Antiphon, Barbara Thornton, Benjamin Bagby, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Early music, Germany, Hildegard of Bingen, Latin, Ordo Virtutum, Pamela Dellal, Plainsong, Saint Pantaleon, Cologne, Sequentia (music group), Theophanu, Vocal music.

  2. Early music albums
  3. Hildegard of Bingen
  4. Theophanu
  5. Western plainchant

Abbess

An abbess (Latin: abbatissa) is the female superior of a community of nuns in an abbey.

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Antiphon

An antiphon (Greek ἀντίφωνον, ἀντί "opposite" and φωνή "voice") is a short chant in Christian ritual, sung as a refrain.

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Barbara Thornton

Barbara Thornton (January 6, 1950 – November 8, 1998) was an American singer, musicologist, and groundbreaking performer of medieval music.

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Benjamin Bagby

Benjamin Bagby (born February 20, 1950) is an American singer, composer, harpist, and performer of medieval music.

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Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (founded 1958) is a German classical music record label.

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Early music

Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750).

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Hildegard of Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen (Hildegard von Bingen,; Hildegardis Bingensis; 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner during the High Middle Ages.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Ordo Virtutum

Ordo Virtutum (Latin for Order of the Virtues) is an allegorical morality play, or sacred music drama, by Hildegard of Bingen, composed around 1151, during the construction and relocation of her Abbey at Rupertsberg. Canticles of Ecstasy and Ordo Virtutum are Hildegard of Bingen.

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Pamela Dellal

Pamela Dellal (born 1960) is an American mezzo-soprano in opera and concert, a musicologist and academic teacher.

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Plainsong

Plainsong or plainchant (calque from the French plain-chant; cantus planus) is a body of chants used in the liturgies of the Western Church. Canticles of Ecstasy and Plainsong are Western plainchant.

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Saint Pantaleon, Cologne

The Church of Saint Pantaleon is an early Romanesque church in Cologne, Germany. Canticles of Ecstasy and Saint Pantaleon, Cologne are Theophanu.

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Sequentia (music group)

Sequentia is an early music ensemble, founded in 1977 by Benjamin Bagby and Barbara Thornton.

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Theophanu

Theophanu (also Theophania, Theophana, or Theophano; Medieval Greek Θεοφανώ; AD 955 15 June 991) was empress of the Holy Roman Empire by marriage to Emperor Otto II, and regent of the Empire during the minority of their son, Emperor Otto III, from 983 until her death in 991.

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Vocal music

Vocal music is a type of singing performed by one or more singers, either with instrumental accompaniment, or without instrumental accompaniment (a cappella), in which singing provides the main focus of the piece.

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See also

Early music albums

Hildegard of Bingen

Theophanu

Western plainchant

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canticles_of_Ecstasy