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Friday, October 24, 2025

The Taylor Swifting of Chant Performance

If we believe that Hildegard von Bingen’s chant is monophonic, why introduce a drone? Why add orchestration, those evocative instrumental...

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Cynthia J. Cyrus: I'm Cynthia Cyrus, a musicologist/monastic historian and professor at Vanderbilt University. My research focuses on late medieval and early modern women's monastic culture -- literate, musical, and otherwise -- particularly at the intersections of silence, sound and memory.

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