Anonymous 4
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| Women in Medieval times were not allowed to sing in the public cathedral and therefore would not have been "professional" soloists of sacred music, as is the Anonymous 4. Within the confines of convents, women would have sung chant just as men did in the monasteries. Certainly the virtuoso chant of the twelfth-century Hildegard von Bingen would have been sung by the nuns in her charge. Both medieval chant and polyphonic manuscripts have survived in convents; from this we can infer that women sang polyphony as well. |
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Susan Hellauer |