{"id":516,"date":"2013-12-05T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T22:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=516"},"modified":"2013-12-05T09:00:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T22:00:50","slug":"advent-calendar-day-5-alma-redemptoris-mater-hildegard-of-bingen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2013\/12\/05\/advent-calendar-day-5-alma-redemptoris-mater-hildegard-of-bingen\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 5: Alma Redemptoris Mater (Hildegard of Bingen)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something about Hildegard of Bingen&#8217;s music that always feels cooling and soothing to the mind.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s the gentleness of the plainchant, and the sweetness of female voices which is so refreshing and relaxing.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q2AcbPaa6xo&#038;w=420&#038;h=315]<\/p>\n<p>The lyrics are a hymn to Mary (Sweet Mother of the Redeemer), and are a traditional text for Advent. Just about everyone has had a try at these lyrics (in fact, I understand that Palestrina wrote two different versions, which might be a thought for another day), but I love the simplicity of Hildegard&#8217;s version, and the sense of unity in time and space that one gets from listening to music that is nearly a thousand years old&#8230; and yet written for the season we are in today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something about Hildegard of Bingen&#8217;s music that always feels cooling and soothing to the mind.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s the gentleness of the plainchant, and the sweetness of female voices which is so refreshing and relaxing. [youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q2AcbPaa6xo&#038;w=420&#038;h=315] The lyrics are a hymn to Mary (Sweet Mother of the Redeemer), and are a traditional text for [&hellip;]<\/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":[13,24,317],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent","tag-alma-redemptoris-mater","tag-hildegard-of-bingen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","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=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}