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Ordo Virtutum
Allegorical morality play by Hildegard Von Bingen
"Order of the Virtues" redirects here. For the Egyptian award, see Order of the Virtues (Egypt).
Ordo Virtutum (Latin for Order of the Virtues) is an allegoricalmorality play, or sacred music drama, by Hildegard of Bingen, composed around 1151, during the construction and relocation of her Abbey at Rupertsberg.
Hildegard von bingen ordo virtutum
It is the earliest morality play by more than a century, and the only medieval musical drama to survive with an attribution for both text and music.
A short version of Ordo Virtutum without music appears at the end of Scivias, Hildegard's most famous account of her visions.
It is also included in some manuscripts of the Symphonia armoniae celestium revelationum ("Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations"), a cycle of more than 70 liturgical songs. It may have been performed by the convent nuns at the dedication of the St.
Rupertsberg church in 1152[1] or possibly before the Ma