{"id":182,"date":"2012-12-15T07:30:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T20:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=182"},"modified":"2012-12-15T07:30:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T20:30:09","slug":"advent-calendar-day-15-hear-my-prayer-o-lord-purcell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2012\/12\/15\/advent-calendar-day-15-hear-my-prayer-o-lord-purcell\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 15: Hear my prayer O Lord (Purcell)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to do another Magnificat, this one by Purcell, but I felt that after yesterday&#8217;s appalling contribution to Advent, a bit of penitence was in order.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6d4b0dio3b0&#038;w=560&#038;h=315]<!--more-->I don&#8217;t repent of this music, though.\u00a0 It&#8217;s wonderful &#8211; I haven&#8217;t heard it before (I was actually looking for a version of the Magnificat when I ran across it), and I love the way it builds from quiet sadness to this incredible, almost painful intensity at the end. It works both musically and on the level of a prayer, and I suspect it&#8217;s one of those pieces that *makes* you believe it while you are singing it.<\/p>\n<p>Which is a lot to fit into two minutes of music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to do another Magnificat, this one by Purcell, but I felt that after yesterday&#8217;s appalling contribution to Advent, a bit of penitence was in order. [youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6d4b0dio3b0&#038;w=560&#038;h=315]<\/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":[13,114,135,308,312],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent","tag-choir-of-clare-college","tag-church-music","tag-hear-my-prayer-o-lord","tag-henry-purcell"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","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=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}