{"id":170,"date":"2012-12-12T07:30:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T20:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=170"},"modified":"2012-12-12T07:30:43","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T20:30:43","slug":"advent-calendar-day-12-meine-seele-erhebt-den-herren-schutz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2012\/12\/12\/advent-calendar-day-12-meine-seele-erhebt-den-herren-schutz\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 12: Meine Seele Erhebt Den Herren (Sch\u00fctz)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time for a Magnificat after all this penitence, don&#8217;t you think?\u00a0 And you can always rely on Sch\u00fctz for something gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rv0RrHC4lUE?rel=0]<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never sung anything by Sch\u00fctz, and I very much want to &#8211; I love his brightness and Renaissance feel.\u00a0 Apparently, he&#8217;s one of those composers who doesn&#8217;t get sung in English speaking countries but is known to anyone who has sung in a German choir for more than about five minutes.\u00a0 We English speakers need to fix this!\u00a0 I discovered him via his gorgeous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NCmoOvtFuds\">Rorate Coeli<\/a> a couple of Advents ago, and I still think that&#8217;s one of the most beautiful pieces of church music I&#8217;ve heard in some time.<\/p>\n<p>And how good is Marzena Lubaszka?\u00a0 I love her effortlessness in this music, and the way she echoes into the distance when the rich are sent empty away&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(if you are wondering what the words would be in English, you can find them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrews.edu\/~mack\/pnotes\/magnificat.html\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 This is Mary&#8217;s song at the Annunciation, which is why it belongs in Advent)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; I&#8217;m sorry.\u00a0 I would like to write more, but I sprained my finger yesterday, and typing is quite painful.\u00a0 You will have to provide your own commentary of delight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for a Magnificat after all this penitence, don&#8217;t you think?\u00a0 And you can always rely on Sch\u00fctz for something gorgeous. [youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rv0RrHC4lUE?rel=0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,135,310,462,478,481,489],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent","tag-church-music","tag-heinrich-schutz","tag-magnificat","tag-marzena-lubaszka","tag-matteo-messori","tag-meine-seele-erhebet-den-herrn"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}