{"id":81978,"date":"2020-10-25T12:16:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T10:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=81978"},"modified":"2020-10-25T12:16:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T10:16:43","slug":"delalandes-grands-motets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/delalandes-grands-motets\/","title":{"rendered":"Delalande\u2019s Grands Motets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"81978","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":79834,"related_cahpter":"597","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"A new series - this time: Michel-Richard Delalande \r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michel-Richard Delalande (1657-1726), &#8220;Ad te, Domine clamabo&#8221; (\u201cI Called to You, O Lord;\u201d verse 9) from the grand-motet \u201cExaltabo te, Domine\u201d (I Extol You, O Lord).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michel-Richard Delalande is known today primarily for his \u201csymphonies\u201d that he composed for the dinner of Louis the XIV (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simphonies pour les Soupers du Roy<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">); but he assured his place in history with his liturgical compositions. Delalande was the most important of the court composers of the king, after the untimely death of Jean-Baptiste Lully. His <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">grands motets<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> expanded the religious multi-vocal genre for choir and orchestra, into its most extravagant form.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These works live up to their name: they were written for a double choir and a large orchestra, and largely were performed in the Versailles Palace, or the royal chapel. Lully began the tradition of these sorts of compositions (see <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/587\/post\/81327\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">his Psalm 20 that we discussed here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), but Delalande is considered the epitome of the genre. Most of the texts for the 77 motets that Delalande left are from the book of Psalms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scholars of Delalande\u2019s motets have laid bare their mathematical-architectonic structures, inspired by the unique structures of Versailles, and its gardens. From the short clip that is available to us here we may not be able to appreciate that in detail, but we can be swept away by the captivating music that the composer wrote for verse 9.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a moment of distress and plaintive cry (similar to \u201cDe Profundis\u201d): the most callous heart will melt when faced with the indescribable musical expression, that unites both the nobility and grandeur of spirit, with the deep humility before God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Motet de Michel-Richard Delalande, &#8220;Exaltabo te, Domine (S.66)&#8221;, n\u00b06 &#8220;Ad te, Domine clamabo, et ad Deum meum deprecabor&#8221;. The Parlement de Musique, performed by Martin Gester, 2000.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GpeZ08gILyc","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"The Psalms In Classical Music","main_caption":"Delalande\u2019s Grands Motets","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"A new series - this time: Michel-Richard Delalande ","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GpeZ08gILyc","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\/81978"}],"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=81978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82031,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81978\/revisions\/82031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}