{"id":763,"date":"2010-12-23T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=763"},"modified":"2010-12-23T12:00:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T01:00:16","slug":"advent-calendar-day-23-i-sing-of-a-maiden-joachim-knoph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2010\/12\/23\/advent-calendar-day-23-i-sing-of-a-maiden-joachim-knoph\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 23 &#8211; I sing of a maiden (Joachim Knoph)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s carol is going to surprise anyone who is familiar with my usual tastes in music. The composer is actually younger than I am and this piece of music may even have been composed in the current millennium, which makes it a good 400 years newer than the majority of this playlist. It&#8217;s actually the kind of music that I really don&#8217;t like singing, because it has odd, atonal harmonies and it&#8217;s hard to know where it will go next, and if you are an alto, you are probably singing G most of the time.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s a very pretty setting of this carol for all that, and it makes me realise how even classical music goes in cycles &#8211; while it definitely has a 20th \/ 21st century feel, there is something medieval in the harmonics; they have that starkness that comes from open fourths and fifths, and there are bits of plainchant-inspired unison. Even the dissonances feel archaic rather than supermodern.<\/p>\n<p>And, as I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve mentioned before, I do like Mary songs best when they are sung by female voices. It feels more fitting, and I think they sound better.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qad5qfgG26g&#038;w=560&#038;h=315]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s carol is going to surprise anyone who is familiar with my usual tastes in music. The composer is actually younger than I am and this piece of music may even have been composed in the current millennium, which makes it a good 400 years newer than the majority of this playlist. It&#8217;s actually the [&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":[14,69,324,360],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent-calendar","tag-baerum-vokalensemble","tag-i-sing-of-a-maiden","tag-joachim-knoph"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","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=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}