{"id":70,"date":"2014-04-11T08:34:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T12:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/?page_id=70"},"modified":"2014-07-30T09:29:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T13:29:04","slug":"placatus-quesumus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/unchained-medieval-melodies\/placatus-quesumus\/","title":{"rendered":"Placatus quesumus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/files\/2014\/04\/Placatus-quesumus-9-July-2014.pdf\">Neumatized sequence: <em>Placatus quesumus<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-70-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/files\/2014\/04\/Placatus-quesumus.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/files\/2014\/04\/Placatus-quesumus.mp3\">https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/files\/2014\/04\/Placatus-quesumus.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A curious example of the notated neumatized sequence, preserved in five manuscripts from medieval Brabant and Hainaut (present day Belgium and the Netherlands). \u00a0<i>Placatus quesumus <\/i>is prescribed for Pentecost Monday.\u00a0 In the Bible, the Holy Spirit visited Christ\u2019s disciples and followers on Pentecost, and they began to speak in many tongues.\u00a0 Medieval descriptions of neumatization liken this practice to the emulation of an unknown, celestial language. This erratic language may be reflected musically in the highly unusual pattern of neumatization: its textless segments are not simple melodic repeats of texted verses, but rather vary widely in their length and combination of reiterated chant fragments. Furthermore, they often precede, rather than echo, their equivalent texted segment.\u00a0 (See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/unchained-medieval-melodies\/ecce-iam-votiva\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Ecce iam votiva<\/i><\/a> for a similar procedure; both chants are taken from the same manuscript).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neumatized sequence: Placatus quesumus &nbsp; A curious example of the notated neumatized sequence, preserved in five manuscripts from medieval Brabant and Hainaut (present day Belgium and the Netherlands). \u00a0Placatus quesumus is prescribed for Pentecost Monday.\u00a0 In the Bible, the Holy Spirit visited Christ\u2019s disciples and followers on Pentecost, and they began to speak in many&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-70","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70","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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/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=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}