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And further, what does it mean to analyze such a song\u2014to discover its deep structure? \n\nIn this paper, I examine the experience of listening to and analyzing the music of the experimental musician Lingua Ignota. Taking her project name from Hildegard von Bingen\u2019s mystical constructed language, her music explores the intersections of Christianity, trauma, and intimate partner abuse. Sonically, her music traverses deconstructed elements of metal and noise music, vocal techniques that range from extended screams to classical mezzo-soprano, and extensively researched references to Catholic, Pentecostal, Mennonite, and Western art musical traditions. The resulting complexly layered musical texts deploy the subjectivity of Christian faith as a metaphor for intimate partner abuse. 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