{"id":157,"date":"2006-06-16T14:24:30","date_gmt":"2006-06-16T14:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/2006\/06\/16\/high-mass-in-the-duomo\/"},"modified":"2015-10-07T13:18:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T13:18:02","slug":"high-mass-in-the-duomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2006\/06\/16\/high-mass-in-the-duomo\/","title":{"rendered":"High Mass in the Duomo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During my trip to Milan a couple of weeks ago I was able to attend the main Sunday Mass in the Cathedral, for the Sunday after Ascension Day. It was presided over by the Cardinal Archbishop (one of last year&#8217;s <i>papabili<\/i>) and was liturgically spectacular (particularly when the Easter candle was slowly winched all the way to the roof) but the music didn&#8217;t really match up. A largish choir of men and boys sang a largely unison mass setting and a couple of hymns (one of which, disconcertingly, went to the tune of <i>Hark! the herald angels sing<\/i>). No music was supplied to the congregation.<\/p>\n<p>Last autumn in Venice I fared rather better. At the main Sunday Mass in San Marco a mixed-voice choir sang a 19th century (or pastiche of the style) four-part setting, though not a very interesting one. I also went to a Mass for All Saints&#8217; Day there; no choir, but a sheet with the words and music to several hymns so that the congregation could join in.<\/p>\n<p>The best I&#8217;ve done in an Italian cathedral was a mass in the Duomo in Florence, I think the last Mass of Sunday morning. The music came from a small book of plainchant melodies which we were given.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my trip to Milan a couple of weeks ago I was able to attend the main Sunday Mass in the Cathedral, for the Sunday after Ascension Day. It was presided over by the Cardinal Archbishop (one of last year&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2006\/06\/16\/high-mass-in-the-duomo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[1123,445,1122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3778,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}