O ignis Spiritus Paracliti?
  • expeditus1
    Posts: 483
    Does anyone have the notation for Hildegard von Bingen's chant, "O ignis Spiritus Paracliti?" http://imagessaintes.canalblog.com/archives/2012/10/09/25290752.html
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
  • tomjaw
    Posts: 2,770
    Have just looked in google (images)

    Here is the page of a manuscript with the chant;
    http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost12/Hildegard/hil_sy07.html

    The 4th image hit in google has the first 'verse' in more readable chant notation!

    Sadly I have too much work on at the moment to typeset it, when did you need it?
    Thanked by 3CHGiffen expeditus1 Felicity
  • expeditus1
    Posts: 483
    tomjaw, I would like to do this for a March 19 Confirmation. If you are, indeed, able to typeset it any time in the future, I would be most thankful!
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,209
    You're welcome to use the on-line Gregorio server at gregorio.gabrielmass.com to typeset it. Also, Adam B has one at illuminarepublications.com.
    Thanked by 1expeditus1
  • mahrt
    Posts: 517
    This piece is published in the Salzburg edition of Hiledgard's music in chant notation. If you would like a copy, send me your e-mail, and I can easily send you a pdf of it. mahrt@stanford.edu
    Thanked by 2CHGiffen expeditus1
  • JL
    Posts: 171
    Expeditus, the entire manuscript of Hildegard's musical works is available on IMSLP (if I weren't posting from my phone, I'd find the link for you). Rather than typesetting O Ignis in square notation, I would recommend making a transcription by hand (calligraphy pens on a big staff work well) using Hildegard's note shapes and a text underlay that works for you. The notation is easy to learn (all the neumes you're used to--the clivis, the podatus and so forth--are there), and the shape of the notation conveys much better the (for lack of a better word) "wiggliness" of the music.

    As written, O Ignis has a very high tessitura, so if you haven't got a quorum of hardcore sopranos, transposition is a good idea. If you do have the treble forces, however, it sounds very cool at the written pitch (which is equivocal anyway in medieval music.)

    And as a shameless plug, if you're in the Boston area tomorrow (February 23), you can come hear O Ignis and the Hildegard Kyrie mentioned in another recent thread (along with lots of other good stuff) at 8 p.m. at the Parish of the Messiah in Newton. More information is available at www.meravelha.com. If you like, we'll show you our transcriptions. :)
    Thanked by 1expeditus1
  • expeditus1
    Posts: 483
    JL, sure would have loved to be there tomorrow to hear the performance!
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
    Posts: 6,471
    the entire manuscript of Hildegard's musical works is available on IMSLP (if I weren't posting from my phone, I'd find the link for you).


    Would you be so kind?
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
    Posts: 5,187
    I just checked IMSLP, and only the (scanned) Riesencodex Hs. 2 (Wiesbaden codex) which contains all but two of her works is available:
          Symphonia et Ordo virtutum (Hildegard)

    The same page does have a nicely engraved O Ignee Spiritus.
    Thanked by 3tomjaw Adam Wood JL
  • JL
    Posts: 171
    My mistake! Perhaps someday the pertinent library will give us a nice scan of the Dendermonde manuscript as well--then we'd have everything.

    Also, I'm glad Charles got there first--he has better HTML skills than I do. :)
Add a Comment