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   Alecs Ștefănescu [38c3] (catileptic@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 19:55:03 JST Alecs Ștefănescu [38c3]

   I just learned about Hildegard of Bingen, born in 1098, a nun who created her own covenant. She wrote Ordo Virtutum, a "musical morality play – a drama in which the characters are personifications of moral or abstract qualities" (J. Staines). Ordo contains only female parts.

   One of my favorite albums in Ayreon's "Human Equation" (2004), with a plot that is similar, and a form that is pretty much the same.

   Time to discover the woman who did it first, 1000 years before.

   #womeninmusic

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     Alecs Ștefănescu [38c3] (catileptic@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 20:12:55 JST Alecs Ștefănescu [38c3]

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     • Alex Holst

     @holsta oh, I didn't know about this! :) thanks for not risking it

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     Alex Holst (holsta@helvede.net)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 20:12:56 JST Alex Holst

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     @catileptic Maybe you already know this Hildegard von Bingen parody account on YouTube, but I can't risk it if you don't:

     https://www.youtube.com/@Hildegardvonblingin/videos