{"id":59,"date":"2014-04-11T08:15:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T12:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2014-07-30T09:31:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T13:31:37","slug":"iubilans-concrepa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/unchained-medieval-melodies\/iubilans-concrepa\/","title":{"rendered":"Iubilans concrepa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/files\/2014\/04\/Iubilans-concrepa-9-July-2014.pdf\">Neumatized sequence: <em>Iubilans concrepa<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-59-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/files\/2014\/04\/Iubilans-concrepa.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/files\/2014\/04\/Iubilans-concrepa.mp3\">https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/files\/2014\/04\/Iubilans-concrepa.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This sequence was sung at Rouen Cathedral on the Saturday after Easter, and the Sunday after the feast of the Ascension commemorating Jesus\u2019 rise to heaven following his resurrection.\u00a0 The melody is relatively simple, but the text is full of elaborate musical wordplay.\u00a0 The singer is exhorted to \u201cmake a jubilant noise,\u201d singing \u201clofty repeated melodies\u201d so they might \u201cecho on that day when the life of the world rises.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0These references to \u201crepeated melodies\u201d and \u201cechoes\u201d aptly reflect the melodic and textual organization of most sequences (in repeating line pairs).\u00a0 The practice of neumatizing this chant (adding the textless \u201cechoes\u201d after each line of text sung) \u2013 prescribed in several contemporary sources \u2013 would surely have enhanced this image of \u201cechoing\u201d heavenly music.\u00a0 Medieval commentators refer to the power of untexted vocalizing to transport the listener closer to the divine, comparing this wordless praise to angelic song.<\/p>\n<p>The recorded performance adds an extra dimension to these repetitions, inspired by the sequence text itself.\u00a0 The text speaks of joining melodies together, adorning the \u201clofty repeated melodies\u201d with ever-abundant harmony.\u00a0 Here, the singers add a voice part above the chant melody, following rules of musical counterpoint of the period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neumatized sequence: Iubilans concrepa &nbsp; This sequence was sung at Rouen Cathedral on the Saturday after Easter, and the Sunday after the feast of the Ascension commemorating Jesus\u2019 rise to heaven following his resurrection.\u00a0 The melody is relatively simple, but the text is full of elaborate musical wordplay.\u00a0 The singer is exhorted to \u201cmake a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-59","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}