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My Own Recordings of Gregorian Chants
by Hildegard von Bingen
 

Unfurling Love's Creation -
Chants by Hildegard of Bingen
Sung by Norma Gentile

Based on compassion as an aspect of Love, these chants illuminate the finer energies of the Divine Feminine. This recording is especially suitable for those seeking deeper stillness.

Recorded over a period of four days with more than 30 people holding sacred space by both singing and meditating. Tibetan Singing Bowls and this drone chorus are used to accompany the vocal line.

Released: March 18, 1997

Healing Chants (a live concert recording)
of Hildegard von Bingen
Sung by Norma Gentile
(released June, 2001)

A live healing concert of 900-year-old chants by Hildegard of Bingen, sung by sound healer Norma Gentile. Accompanied by Tibetan Singing Bowls and a choir of women, this CD includes spoken blessings and Hildegard's own poetry. The songs invoke the Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine, using the music as a carrier wave for healing energies. An ideal vehicle to magnify meditation and creative acts.

The focus of this concert CD is the interplay of the Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine. The opening of the heart this past fall, particularly among men, was one result of the events of 9/11. As male hearts learns to express their true Masculine a safe and sacred challis iis created. In this challis the Feminine may come to rest.

This CD supports the opening of the heart to the Sacred Masculine. It promotes the relaxation and release of the mind into the safe field of spirit. This in turn allows the opening of intuition with the Sacred Feminine earth.

 

Meditation Chants
of Hildegard von Bingen
Sung by Norma Gentile

Designed for use as a meditational aid, the chants in this CD correspond to Spiritual Ideals. The first three chants provide a general surround, then the series progresses from the crown chakra downward. Each chant embodies the essence of the related gland and chakra. Crown-Compassion, Third Eye-Truth, Throat-Life, Thymus/Heart-Clarification, Solar Plexus and Naval area-Blessing and Forgiveness, Non-Judgemental Focus, and Root-Patience.

This is a live concert recording, with the sound and energy of an audience meditating. Includes Tibetan Singing Bowls and audience drone.

Not currently available through Amazon.com. Until it is, please order it via
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Ave Maria Press 0-87793-893-8 (tape), 0-87793-9894-6 (CD)

 
Hildegard von Bingen - Selected Books



Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen
by Matthew Fox (Editor)

A great first book on Hildegard! Full color reproductions of her artwork, stories of her life and excerpts from her writings upon which the illuminations are based. Easy to read, it makes a nicegift as well as flip-through picture book. Once you have read this, you are ready togo onto her medical writings, theological books or poems, with a basic background of understanding.

Published December 1985


Hildegard of Bingen: Woman of Vision
by Carol Reed-Jones

A great book to share with your children. While written for middle school and upper elementary grade students, this is a lovely overview of Hildegard's life and time,. A relaxing read that sets Hildegard's life into historical context, the author has re-created Hildegard's world in a way that those of many ages can enter into it.

2004



Hildegard of Bingen's Spiritual Remedies

by Dr. Wighard Strehlow

A book of 250 pages, includes natural medthods, such as meditation and fasting, used by Hildegard to treat 'weaknesses of the soul'. This is a companion volume to Dr. Strehlow's Hildegard of Bingen's Medicine.

Published June 2002



The Journal of Hildegard of Bingen
by Barbara Lachman

What a lovely book this is! The layout is wonderful, mimicing a medieval book in its notes along the borders and typsetting. I found moments of wonder when the story fell into Hildegard's life with all the pain and passion of true humanity . A fictional must.

Published April 1995

Hildegard Von Bingen's Physica :
The Complete English Translation of Her Classic Work on Health and Healing
Priscilla Throop (Translator)

Hildegard wrote two books on healing - Causae et Curae, and Physica, the latter translated here from her original Latin into English for the first time. Hildegard follows the pattern of medical thought of her time, that illiness is a result of imbalance in the living system of mind-body-spirit. Reaching a better balance can ocurr through changing our relationship to many things, including Plants, Elements, Trees, Stones, Fish, Birds, Animals, Reptiles and Metals. Hildegard's writings tend to be difficult to translate, and contain many references to her own Catholic world of spirit. This is a great book for those who are ready to 'feel' Hildegard's words reach out to them, but is a difficult place to start if you have no background in her life or medieval texts.

Published October 1998

Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179 :
A Visionary Life
by Sabina Flanagan

Basic historical background not just on Hildegard's own life but also on the role and challenges faced by women of her time period in northern European cultures. I found it interesting and distrubing to note that the cultural practices around education still have underlying currents in today's world.

Published June 1998

Scarlet Music
A Novel
by Joan Ohanneson

I admit, I haven't read it yet! But I have heard from many people how much they enjoyed it, and that because of reading this book they felt drawn to discover Hildegard's music and writings.This is a fictionalized account of events.

Published August 1995

Hildegard, the Last Year
by Barbara Lachman

In 1178, in the 80th year of her life, Hildegard of Bingen and her community of nuns were forced to refrain from their daily cycle of chanted services. Imagining Hildegard's thoughts during that period of enforced silence, author Barbara Lachman creates a "journal" such as Hildegard might have kept--a moving meditation on the power and meaning of the word, music, and silence, and a compelling work of historical re-creation.

Published October 1997

The Book of the Rewards of Life
(Liber Vitae Meritorum)
by Hildegard of Bingen :

Translated Bruce W. Hozeski

Hildegard of Bingen's Book of Divine Works :
With Letters and Songs
Matthew Fox (Editor)

Some of HIldegard's own descriptions and interpretations of her visions, a selection of her letters, including those on the sacred nature of music, and ten of her songs in square note notation with English translation. A nice sampling for those wanting to connect Hildegard's life and music.

ISBN: 0939680351

Hildegard of Bingen and Her Vision of the Feminine
by Nancy Fierro

Published March 1997

ISBN: 1564553388

Symphonia : A Critical Edition of the Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum
by Hildegard of Bingen
Translation and introduction by Barbara Newman

Here you will find all of Hildegard's chants translated into English. As with any translations, the viewpoint and opinions of the translator come through very strongly. I find a strong leaning to feminism here, which is also a nice balance to other translations (including my own). This may be the only complete English version in print.

Published March 1998)


The Creative Spirit:
Harmonious Living with Hildegard of Bingen
by June Boyce-Tillman, June Tillman


Paperback: 224 pages; (July 1, 2001)


Constructing Musical Healing:
The Wounds that Heal
by June Boyce-Tillman

Paperback: 304 pages; 1st edition (December 2000)

 

Hildegard of Bingen's Medicine
by Dr.Wighard Strehlow, Gottfried Hertzka (Contributor)

If you are interested in knowing more of how Hildegard thought about healing and balance in the mind-body-spirit connection, this is a good starter book. It includes highlights from her original writtings in Latin, translated into English, and lets readers take some of her ideas into modern day life.

Published March 1988