Exquisitely pure melodies from the earliest days of Western music.
One in three children died in infancy, life smelled terrible, and yet Hildegard of Bingen composed music of ecstatic beauty.
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Galileo discovers the moons of Jupiter, ‘allegory’ and ‘victim’ enter the English language, and Venetian composer Monteverdi publishes the Vespers for the Blessed Virgin.