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I Am That Great and Fiery Force

Author: Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 I am that great and fiery force sparkling in everything that lives; in shining of the river’s course, in greening grass that glory gives. 2 I shine in glitter on the seas, in burning sun, in moon and stars. In unseen wind, in verdant trees I breathe within, both near and far. 3 And where I breathe there is no death, and meadows glow with beauties rife. I am in all, the spirit’s breath, the thundered word, for I am Life. Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder Praise and Transcendence; Memorials and Funerals; Nature and the Countryside Used With Tune: AVE VERA VIRGINITAS

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AVE VERA VIRGINITAS

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Josquin Desprez, 1445-1521; Anthony Petti, b. 1932 Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 55566 77555 56677 Used With Text: I Am That Great and Fiery Force

DE SPIRITU SANCTO

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Benjamin Bergey Tune Sources: based on chant “Spiritus sanctus vivificans,” Hildegard of Bingen, 12th c. Tune Key: c minor Incipit: 15451 76543 42134 Used With Text: I Am That Great and Fiery Force

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I Am That Great and Fiery Force

Author: Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179 Hymnal: Singing the Living Tradition #27 (1993) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1 I am that great and fiery force sparkling in everything that lives; in shining of the river’s course, in greening grass that glory gives. 2 I shine in glitter on the seas, in burning sun, in moon and stars. In unseen wind, in verdant trees I breathe within, both near and far. 3 And where I breathe there is no death, and meadows glow with beauties rife. I am in all, the spirit’s breath, the thundered word, for I am Life. Topics: Transcending Mystery and Wonder Praise and Transcendence; Memorials and Funerals; Nature and the Countryside Languages: English Tune Title: AVE VERA VIRGINITAS

I Am That Great and Fiery Force

Author: Hildegard of Bingen Hymnal: Voices Together #663 (2020) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Children Appropriate for; Creation God as Creator; God Images and Names of; God Power of; God Presence of; Heritage Before 1500; Jesus Christ Images and Names of Scripture: Exodus 3:1-15 Tune Title: DE SPIRITU SANCTO

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Saint Hildegard

1098 - 1179 Person Name: Hildegard of Bingen Author of "I Am That Great and Fiery Force" in Voices Together Hildegard, St., Virgin and Abbess, was born at Bockelheim, or Bockenheim, Frankfurt, 1098. Her father, Hildebert, was one of the Knights of Meginhard, Count of Spanheim. When eight years old she was committed to tho care of a sister of the Count, Jutta, the Abbess of St. Disibod, a position in which she was succeeded by Hildegard in 1136. Under the rule of Hildegard the convent became so crowded that a new one was built at Rupertsberg, near Bingen, into which, in 1147, Hildegard removed with eighteen Sisters. Hildegard gained great notoriety in very early life on account of visions to which, it is said, she was subject from her 6th to her 15th year. In later life she filled a considerable place in the history of her times, not only as a writer who had the courage of her opinions, and spared neither high nor low in her vigorous denunciations of their shortcomings, political as well as moral, but as a prophetess and preacher. At the instigation of St. Bernard she took a most prominent part in stirring up the unfortunate crusade which he preached, and engaged in many controversies with the hierarchy of her Church. Though she never ceased to be the abbess of the convent she had founded, much of her time was spent in travelling about the Continent, preaching and prophesying. She died in 1179, and was buried at Eupertsberg, but her remains were removed, on the destruction of that convent by the Swedes, to Eilingen, in 1622. Though St. Hildegard was a voluminous writer her contributions to the hymnody of her day were neither numerous nor important. Mone gives three sequences which are attributed to her, viz., one on the Holy Spirit, “0 ignis Spiritus paracliti"; another on the Blessed Virgin Mary, "0 Virga ac diadema purpurae Regis"; and a third on St. Disibod, "0 praesul verae civitatis." [Rev. Digby S. Wrangham, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology

Josquin des Prez

1440 - 1521 Person Name: Josquin Desprez, 1445-1521 Composer of "AVE VERA VIRGINITAS" in Singing the Living Tradition

Anthony G. Petti

1932 - 1985 Person Name: Anthony Petti, b. 1932 Adapter of "AVE VERA VIRGINITAS" in Singing the Living Tradition Petti, Anthony Gaetano. (London, England, February 12, 1932-- ). Roman Catholic. University College, London, B.A., 1955; M.A., 1957; D.Lit., 1970. While teaching English at the University of London (1955-1968) and the University of Calgary, Alberta (1969-?), and directing in both cities vocal and instrumental groups whose members shared his tastes, he did a great deal of research into Renaissance literature and music, particularly that produced by English Catholics, and published critical editions of many obscure and fascinating works. He reached out to a non-specialist audience with The New Catholic Hymns, for which he served as literary editor and made several translations, was published by Faber Music, London, in 1971; editions in several other countries soon followed, and his verses found their way into many other hymnbooks and breviaries. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives