To my comment,
Of course, it should be remembered too, that with Hildegard's music, both modern notation AND square notation are anachronisitic, as when she was writing, neither notation system had yet been systematized.
John Howell wrote:
You're suggesting that Guido's notation, developed in the first third of the 11th century, was unknown in the Germanic Kingdoms in the middle of the 12th?
to which I would respond, that no, I was not suggesting that Hildegard was unfamiliar with Guido's notation, but rather that the system of rules applying to square notation as we know them today, is a more recent, and most likely, different, system of organization than existed in her time. In other words, I was not suggesting that Hildegards music was not notated, but rather like round, five line notation, it very likely used very different customs and perhaps different signs (or the same sign to mean different things) than we use now, just as is true of round notation, where the way a contemporary reader would perform the music might be different than a contemporary performer reading from a score of Victoria (to name an example).
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