{"id":660,"date":"2015-12-18T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T22:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=660"},"modified":"2015-12-18T09:00:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T22:00:26","slug":"advent-calendar-day-20-a-musicological-journey-through-the-twelve-days-of-christmas-courtney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2015\/12\/18\/advent-calendar-day-20-a-musicological-journey-through-the-twelve-days-of-christmas-courtney\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 20 &#8211; A Musicological Journey through the Twelve Days of Christmas (Courtney)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday again, and that means it is time to take off our rose-tinted spectacles (it&#8217;s possible that you are relieved to hear this by now), and indulge in some Friday Frivolity.<\/p>\n<p>I love this piece of music SO MUCH.\u00a0 Love, love, love, love, love it!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been saving it for the last Friday in Advent, because I think we all need to take a deep breath now that Christmas is only a week away, and let it out in a big giggle.\u00a0 Also, after nearly three weeks of Advent Carols, I feel we are all likely to have a greater appreciation of the musical genre games being played here than we might have had before.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Musicological Journey through Christmas via the Twelve Days of Christmas\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ryp8MTtznvU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, how fun is that?\u00a0 The more church music you&#8217;ve done, the cleverer it is (there is some definite Palestrina in there, and Vivaldi and Handel both get a turn, but then there is Wagner, and the Carnival of the Animals for Seven Swans a Singing, and it is so, so clever, and one day, I will find a way to teach this to my work choir, and it will be *glorious*.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy, and I hope your weekend is as stress-free as is possible at this time of year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday again, and that means it is time to take off our rose-tinted spectacles (it&#8217;s possible that you are relieved to hear this by now), and indulge in some Friday Frivolity. I love this piece of music SO MUCH.\u00a0 Love, love, love, love, love it!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been saving it for the last Friday in [&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":[13,14,163,508],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent","tag-advent-calendar","tag-craig-courtney","tag-musicological-journey-through-the-twelve-days-of-christmas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","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=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}