
A Feather on the Breath of God
1151
Hildegard wrote both the words and the music, which almost nobody else did, and her melodies leap much further than plainchant of the period allows.
★ 4.6

Hildegard wrote both the words and the music, which almost nobody else did, and her melodies leap much further than plainchant of the period allows.

Machaut left money for this mass to be sung at an altar in Reims Cathedral in his memory, and it was, for centuries.