Three Hildegard Fantasies

Three Hildegard Fantasies (2024)

-for Solo Guitar

1. Ave Generosa
2. O Frondens Virga
3. O Quam Mirabilis

Total Duration: approx. 20 minutes

Difficulty: Advanced

This set of three fantasies for solo guitar are each based upon plainchant by 12th Century composer, philosopher, mystic, abbess and polymath Hildegard of Bingen.

Motives and melodic phrases from Hildegard’s plainchants have been used freely throughout, occasionally quoted in full, though often represented by motives and intervals which provide a starting point for my own melodic statements. The music seeks to explore an ethereal soundscape evoking a meeting place between earthly and spiritual realms.