{"id":73,"date":"2014-04-11T08:44:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T12:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2014-07-30T09:36:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T13:36:12","slug":"sacrosancta-hodiernae","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/unchained-medieval-melodies\/sacrosancta-hodiernae\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacrosancta hodiernae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/files\/2014\/04\/Sacrosancta-hodiernae-9-July-2014.pdf\">Neumatized sequence: <em>Sacrosancta hodiernae<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-73-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/files\/2014\/04\/Sacrosancta.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/files\/2014\/04\/Sacrosancta.mp3\">https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/files\/2014\/04\/Sacrosancta.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A sequence for St. Andrew, representing a later style of medieval chant composition.\u00a0 This extensive, free-flowing melody explores a variety of pitch centers and a wide vocal range.\u00a0 It is performed here by two male soloists, who sing the verses in alternation, joining together for the final verse.Images of speech, breath, spirit, soul, and scent, suffuse this sequence text.\u00a0 These themes unite in the text\u2019s final lines:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Now you breathe the fragrance of pleasantness that the spice of divine love gives.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>May you be for us therefore sweetness, which breathes the innermost balsam of heavenly life<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In medieval writings, the Latin word <i>pneuma<\/i> denotes \u201cspirit\u201d or \u201cbreath,\u201d while the similarly-sounding word <i>neuma<\/i> means \u201cmelodic gesture\u201d or \u201cmelismatic phrase\u201d (i.e. untexted).\u00a0 The close aural connection of these words was explored by various medieval writers and seems to have inspired the addition of three neumatized (textless) phrases in this performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neumatized sequence: Sacrosancta hodiernae &nbsp; A sequence for St. Andrew, representing a later style of medieval chant composition.\u00a0 This extensive, free-flowing melody explores a variety of pitch centers and a wide vocal range.\u00a0 It is performed here by two male soloists, who sing the verses in alternation, joining together for the final verse.Images of speech,&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-73","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73","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=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/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=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}