O Ecclesia

Composer: HILDEGARD of Bingen
  • O Ecclesia (“O Church”) is a sequence for St. Ursula and Companions.1
    • St. Ursula was the legendary leader of a group of holy virgins who the Huns martyred at Cologne in the 4th Century. Today, the Order of St. Ursula is explicitly dedicated to the education of girls.

Score, text, and translation of O Ecclesia

Sources

  1. Nathaniel M. Campbell, Beverly R. Lomer, and Xenia Sandstrom-McGuire, “The Symphonia and Ordo Virtutum of Hildegard von Bingen,” International Society of Hildegard Studies (2014), accessed September 22, 2022, http://www.hildegard-society.org/p/music.html#Symphonia.

Cut IDs

10855