{"id":80987,"date":"2020-10-06T13:13:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T10:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=80987"},"modified":"2020-10-06T13:13:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T10:13:46","slug":"the-dutch-approach-to-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-dutch-approach-to-humility\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dutch Approach To Humility"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck – Diligam Te, Domine, Fortitude Mea (\u201cI adore you, O LORD, my strength\u201d – 18:2), The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge,Timothy Brown.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) is considered to this day the greatest Dutch composer. Most of his life he lived in Amsterdam. His main historical significance lies in his founding of the \u201cNorth German\u201d school of organ music: a dynasty of students, players and composers, which reached its height, and its end, in Johann Sebastian Bach. From the other end, his choral works represent the epitome and summation of the Franco-Flemish school of the Renaissance, during which, for over 150 years, composers from the Low Countries dominated the composition of polyphonic choir music throughout all of Europe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This lovely motet (short, religious polyphonic composition) of Sweelinck\u2019s is based on verses 2-3 from the great song of Ps. 18. This is a part of a collection of 37 motets, called \u201cHoly Hymns\u201d that were composed in 1619. With this, Sweelinck completed a motet cycle that he composed for all 150 psalms!<\/span><\/p>\n

In Ps 18, as a song of thanksgiving, he expresses an attitude of humility, and submissiveness to the Creator (as opposed to later Baroque compositions on the same text, such as Scarlatti and Rameau, who emphasized its festiveness and grandeur). He retains the style of the Renaissance, wherein five equal voices share the melodies, via imitation. The publisher, as befitted the style of the times, added a part for organ, with chords – but apparently not with the permission of the composer, and today it is mostly performed a capella.<\/span><\/p>\n

The tune which expresses the love of God develops as a web of imitations between the voices, at the same time as a very decisive counter-melody is sounded – on the words \u201cMy fortress.\u201d The contrast between the two melodies is evident in the polyphonic braid, with the intensity reaching its peak on \u201cO LORD, My rock.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A new web of continuous imitations opens up on the words \u201cmy rescuer\u201d (Latin uses more syllables: \u201cet liberator meus\u201d), in a motif of descending scales that express the psalmist\u2019s being pursued. The second half of the motet is on \u201cmy mighty champion\u201d (\u201cet cornu salutis meae\u201d), with a new phrase, that intensifies the tonal movement until the end.<\/span><\/p>\n

The composer may have felt that despite the beauty of the work, that he dedicated too little space to this central psalm, and later on he composed an additional work on Ps 18, larger in its structure (eight voices), and using a larger text than just the psalm, dedicating it to the marriage of an old friend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HueG8LNRi4k","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"The Psalms In Classical Music","main_caption":"The Dutch Approach To Humility","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"A new series - this time Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HueG8LNRi4k","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"links":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80988,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80987\/revisions\/80988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}