{"id":191,"date":"2007-02-26T08:50:08","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T08:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/26\/two-familiar-pieces-for-ash-wednesday\/"},"modified":"2015-10-07T12:08:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T12:08:59","slug":"two-familiar-pieces-for-ash-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2007\/02\/26\/two-familiar-pieces-for-ash-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"two familiar pieces for Ash Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a brief note until I can prepare some longer entries.  On Ash Wednesday we sang two very familiar pieces: Allegri&#8217;s <em>Miserere<\/em> and parts of Byrd&#8217;s 4-Part Mass.   I know both pieces very thoroughly, but as it happens I haven&#8217;t sung either for several years.  I sang the Byrd more than once at weddings of friends, though I never felt that the mood of the piece was quite right for this.  There is a deep melancholy to it, I suppose because it was written for clandestine performance under persecution. But I think the couples concerned felt that the alternative for the performers they&#8217;d got was Darke in F!  The Byrd is more suited to Ash Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a brief note until I can prepare some longer entries. On Ash Wednesday we sang two very familiar pieces: Allegri&#8217;s Miserere and parts of Byrd&#8217;s 4-Part Mass. I know both pieces very thoroughly, but as it happens I haven&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2007\/02\/26\/two-familiar-pieces-for-ash-wednesday\/\">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":[20],"tags":[448,117,458],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"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=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3760,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/3760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}