{"id":64,"date":"2014-04-11T08:25:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T12:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2014-07-30T09:32:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T13:32:28","slug":"nostra-musica","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/unchained-medieval-melodies\/nostra-musica\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostra musica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/files\/2014\/04\/Nostra-musica-9-July-2014.pdf\">Neumatized sequence: <em>Nostra musica<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-64-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/files\/2014\/04\/Nostra-musica.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/files\/2014\/04\/Nostra-musica.mp3\">https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/files\/2014\/04\/Nostra-musica.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This substantial and beautiful sequence honoring John the Evangelist only survives in a couple of northern French sources from the late twelfth and early thirteenth century.\u00a0 While its text is rare, the sequence\u2019s melody (\u201cIustus ut palma\u201d) was widely known in the Middle Ages and was expressed with different text, often in connection with various saints.<\/p>\n<p>Like <i>Iubilans concrepa<\/i>, the text of <i>Nostra musica<\/i> contains a number of evocative phrases conveying the power of untexted song to move the supplicant closer to the divine. \u00a0In particular, its opening alternate references to earthly (texted) song, and heavenly (purely musical) harmony.\u00a0 John the Evangelist was particularly venerated for his translation of divine wisdom into the written word.\u00a0 Medieval images frequently portray him as a conduit between the earthly and the eternal.\u00a0 The alternation between texted lines and wordless melismas in this neumatized sequence might have expressed a similar alternation between the earthly and the unknowable divine to medieval listeners.<\/p>\n<p>For another neumatized sequence celebrating St John the Evangelist, see <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/unchained-medieval-melodies\/trinitatem-reserat-aquila\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trinitatem reserat aquila<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neumatized sequence: Nostra musica &nbsp; This substantial and beautiful sequence honoring John the Evangelist only survives in a couple of northern French sources from the late twelfth and early thirteenth century.\u00a0 While its text is rare, the sequence\u2019s melody (\u201cIustus ut palma\u201d) was widely known in the Middle Ages and was expressed with different text,&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-64","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","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=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/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=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}