Hildegard of Bingen's biography. Hildegard was born in 1098 in Bermersheim, on the Rhine, the tenth child of a noble family. It was the custom to promise the tenth child to the Church, so at eight (or ...

“Vision,” Margarethe von Trotta’s sympathetic imagining of the life of the 12th-century Benedictine nun Hildegard von Bingen, opens with a prologue that establishes a contemporary secular ...

Western music professor Kate Helsen explains how to read the neumes, and shares how the songs may have sounded. cbc.ca. Deciphering medieval neumes - what a score looked like before we had sheet ...

From neumes to sheet music. There was a natural development between medieval neumes and sheet music as it is known today, Helsen said. But before either, people relied on their memory to recall ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Centuries before recorded music, sheet music and streaming services, there were "little ...

Medieval sheet music with 'neumes' now on display for the public to see in London. Video | Kendra Seguin | CBC News | Posted: May 6, 2025 6:56 PM | Last Updated: May 6.