{"id":855,"date":"2018-12-01T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=855"},"modified":"2018-12-01T11:00:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T00:00:15","slug":"advent-calendar-day-1-rorate-caeli-zebrowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2018\/12\/01\/advent-calendar-day-1-rorate-caeli-zebrowski\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 1: Rorate Caeli &#8211; Zebrowski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The classic text for Advent 1 is Rorate Coeli Desuper \u2013 Let the heavens open and rain down righteousness. The oldest setting for this is this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f06qdhO_sEY\">Gregorian chant<\/a>, which still gets sung today (literally today, actually \u2013 I&#8217;ll be singing it this evening), but just about every church composer of note has had a crack at it. I\u2019ve sung a fair number of versions, and cast envious eyes over more (shout out to the setting by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NCmoOvtFuds\">Heinrich Sch\u00fctz<\/a>, which I passionately adore and annually badger my various choirmasters to let me sing, so far to no avail).<\/p>\n<p>What these settings all have in common is that they tend to be reflective and a bit mysterious.\u00a0 The Sch\u00fctz is, admittedly, fairly chirpy, but the overall theme is one of sweetness and stillness.<\/p>\n<p>And then we have this one.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3hYB0RhhWQo<\/p>\n<p>Which is\u2026 not. Apparently, this is what happens when you give a Polish Baroque composer the Rorate text.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never encountered Marcin Zebrowski before, but apparently he was born in 1702 and died in 1770, which puts him in the later baroque period \u2013 he&#8217;s younger than Bach and Handel, but older than Mozart, and would have overlapped at least a little with all three.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m honestly not at all sure what I think of this as a setting for rorate coeli \u2013 it sounds almost military to me, which is an odd thing to do with those lyrics \u2013 but it certainly starts Advent off with a bang!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The classic text for Advent 1 is Rorate Coeli Desuper \u2013 Let the heavens open and rain down righteousness. The oldest setting for this is this Gregorian chant, which still gets sung today (literally today, actually \u2013 I&#8217;ll be singing it this evening), but just about every church composer of note has had a crack [&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":[14,467,623],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent-calendar","tag-marcin-zebrowski","tag-rorate-caeli"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","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=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}