Hildegard of Bingen

The abbess, visionary, physician and composer whose Ordo Virtutum is the earliest surviving morality play with music, and whose songs soar far past the range of the chant around her.

⭐⭐ THE MEDIEVAL PRECEDENT FOR THE MECHANISM ▨ SECTION III FOUND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY — AUTHORSHIP LICENSED BY VISION. Hildegard composed, wrote theology, and corresponded with emperors in a century that gave a woman none of those permissions, and the frame that made it possible was that she attributed the material to what she was shown rather than to herself. ⚠ She is a Christian visionary and no claim of Kabbalistic influence is made or implied; she is here because the same door — disclaim the authorship, keep the work — opens in two traditions seven hundred years apart, and because her music is extraordinary and almost nobody in this app's audience has heard it.