{"id":857,"date":"2018-12-05T10:11:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T23:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=857"},"modified":"2018-12-05T10:11:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T23:11:16","slug":"advent-calendar-day-5-rorate-caeli-weir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2018\/12\/05\/advent-calendar-day-5-rorate-caeli-weir\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 5: Rorate Caeli &#8211; Weir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our last Rorate Caeli brings us into the 20th century, via the early Middle Ages.\u00a0 This setting is by Judith Weir, and was written in 1983.\u00a0 She uses the melody from the Gregorian chant as her base, then adds in harmonies that are very much 20th century, but give another nod to the Middle Ages with their open fifths.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say, I absolutely love this \u2013 my only complaint is that it is far too short, and I want more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Advent Prose\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HBXrv42tAMs?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>&#8230; which is what sent me down the 20th century Rorate Caeli rabbit hole to this very modern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HHL6bBReoik\">Rorate by Leo Nestor, composed in 2011<\/a>.\u00a0 This is another composition that uses the plain chant as a starting point, but it has a completely different feel \u2013 one I associate with American close harmony singing.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a little bit of jazz to the harmonies, and a fairly fabulous bottom D for the basses.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t love it as much as the Weir, but it&#8217;s an interesting addition to the genre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our last Rorate Caeli brings us into the 20th century, via the early Middle Ages.\u00a0 This setting is by Judith Weir, and was written in 1983.\u00a0 She uses the melody from the Gregorian chant as her base, then adds in harmonies that are very much 20th century, but give another nod to the Middle Ages [&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":[14,115,392,431,623],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent-calendar","tag-choir-of-jesus-college-cambridge","tag-judith-weir","tag-leo-nestor","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\/857","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=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}