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Computational Analysis as a Tool for Contextualizing the Music of Hildegard of Bingen

Computational Analysis as a Tool for Contextualizing the Music of Hildegard of Bingen

Lecture by Jennifer Bain

Given at Dalhousie University on November 23, 2023

Overview: For many years, Jennifer Bain has been analyzing and contextualizing the music of Hildegard of Bingen within the medieval chant repertory using manual methodologies. In this lecture, she will talk about the computational tools and techniques that she and her research team have been using to compare Hildegard’s compositional methods and melodic style to a dataset of late medieval chant, and present some of their preliminary findings.

Dr. Jennifer Bain is Professor of Music and Associate Vice President Research at Dalhousie University. Named to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists, she has received numerous grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Recently editor of the Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen (2021), her publications focus on the development of digital chant research tools and the reception and analysis of medieval music including the music of Guillaume de Machaut and Hildegard of Bingen.

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See also: Hildegard of Bingen Composes the Cosmos

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