Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer - Bruce W. Holsinger

• Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer - Bruce W. Holsinger - Google Libros
  She mixed the drink with tears in propoer measure [temperat in mesuram], and to the full delight of God she beat a melody from her heart and body [pulsat cordis sui et corporis symphoniam]. She produced the organ tones of her lamentations, played upon the cithar by her long and rhythmical sighs, and fitted groans to the pipe [in fistulam]. While she kept beating her breast in reproach to her conscience she made the cymbals resound which would please God. 

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