[Sca-cooks] Fun and ignorance - The Response

[Stefan li Rous]

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa asked and commented:
>> There is a Swedish music group whose name escapes me (I could look it
>> up) who played here in NYC a few weeks ago which is setting poetry of
>> Hildegard of Bingen to music. I didn't go hear them, but a friend did,
>> and a couple of people here seem to be familiar with them.
>
> Were they setting her poetry to music, or using her music?

There is more on this, or similar groups, in this file (mentioned earlier)
in the PEOPLE AND pLACES section in the Florilegium:

St-Hildegard-msg  (20K) 10/20/00    Hildegard von Bingen. writer. References.


And the message below gives some more info (which isn't in the Flori.
yet.:


> OB food Content: I'm increasingly sure that the 'cookies of joy' in the
> Physica are not actually cookies but troches or pills.

What makes you think this?


Stefan

> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 07:40:10 -0700
> From: Meg Miller <thlber at pacbell.net>
> To: sca-arts at raven.cc.ku.edu
> Subject: Re: Hildy
>
>>Does anyone know where I can find books and/or written
>>music of Hildegard von Bingen?  I can read music,
>>medieval notation or modern.
>>
>>Lady Heloise Noailles-les-Brive
>
> http://www.hildegard.com sells the sheet music to much of her work,
> as well as music for many other period women musicians.
>
> Berengere d'Acre