{"id":859,"date":"2018-12-02T10:10:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T23:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=859"},"modified":"2018-12-02T10:10:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T23:10:22","slug":"advent-calendar-day-2-rorate-caeli-guerrero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2018\/12\/02\/advent-calendar-day-2-rorate-caeli-guerrero\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 2: Rorate Caeli &#8211; Guerrero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was looking for just the right Rorate Coeli\/Caeli to share with you yesterday, I fell down a very deep internet rabbit hole where it turns out that pretty much every composer and his cat has written a setting of this text.\u00a0 Some of them do very little for me, but others are absolutely lovely \u2013 lovely enough, in my opinion, to justify a sequence of Rorate Coeli posts for the first few days of this Advent.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Rorate, however, is in fact the one I was looking for when I stumbled on this rabbit hole in the first place.\u00a0 It&#8217;s by Francisco Guerrero, a 16th century Spanish priest and composer.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a setting I&#8217;ve sung a few times in different churches, and it&#8217;s very lovely and unexpectedly simple to sing \u2013 everyone gets a melody, and they all blend together very beautifully.\u00a0 I like the word painting in this one \u2013 the all those lovely, waterfall-like runs in each voice part, matching the psalmist&#8217;s rainy metaphor.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pWREiFdvAvY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was looking for just the right Rorate Coeli\/Caeli to share with you yesterday, I fell down a very deep internet rabbit hole where it turns out that pretty much every composer and his cat has written a setting of this text.\u00a0 Some of them do very little for me, but others are absolutely [&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":[14,96,254,623],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent-calendar","tag-capella-musicale-della-cattedrale-sulmona","tag-francisco-guerrero","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\/859","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=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}