{"id":85728,"date":"2021-01-02T22:50:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T20:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=85728"},"modified":"2021-01-02T22:50:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T20:50:23","slug":"each-verse-a-different-texture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/each-verse-a-different-texture\/","title":{"rendered":"Each Verse, A Different Texture"},"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":"85728","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":79834,"related_cahpter":"646","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"A new series - this time: Henry Purcell  ","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Henry Purcell (1659 &#8211; 1695), \u201cLord, How Long Wilt Thou Be Angry\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once again, we meet Henry Purcell, the wonderful English Baroque composer, and this time in a psalm whose content speaks to the Jewish ear regarding the destruction of the Temple. But Purcell took only the verses 5,8,9 and 13, which together do not connect to any particular traumatic moment. Thus we won\u2019t hear from Purcell comments such as \u201cPour out Your wrath upon the nations\u2026\u201d and other calls for revenge that appear in this chapter. Given this, the chapter becomes a more universal psalm of regret and penitence, similar to the Penitential Psalms that were gathered and arranged by composers such as Orlande de Lassus and Heinrich Schutz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The work is quite early in the Purcell\u2019s oeuvre: it was written when he was 20 years old, close to the time when he was appointed organist at Westminster. This could explain the amount of influence that other Renaissance composers, Italian and British, had on Purcell\u2019s still as yet underdeveloped personal style. As in other psalms that Purcell set to music, this one too is rich with complex fugal structures between the voices, and has a particularly sentimental tone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is difficult to describe in words the wonders of a musician who can create a world of ideas and emotion, that goes back and forth among five voices. Each of the four verses is given its own treatment, and each one acquires a different texture: verse 5 opens with a simple melody, which gains in depth as a result of the rich vocal weave. Verse 8 (\u201cDo not hold our former iniquities against us\u201d) is written for just three male voices. In verse 9 the cry \u201cHelp us, O God, our deliverer\u201d is sounded by the entire chorus in unison. The ending, \u201cFor the sake of Your name,\u201d is written as a long continuous climb up the scale together with harmonic combinations that were considered quite daring in their day. The closing verse (13) expresses a tone of praise, with an accelerated tempo, at first all voices in unison, followed by an increasingly complex energetic fugue, until the end.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lord, how long wilt thou be angry &#8211; Henry Purcell (1659 &#8211; 1695);\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Z. 25; A Guided Tour of the Baroque Era, Vol. 3; NaxosofAmerica, 2009\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ikS4BfO298s","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"The Psalms In Classical Music","main_caption":"Each Verse, A Different Texture","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"A new series - this time: Henry Purcell ","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ikS4BfO298s","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\/85728"}],"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=85728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85797,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85728\/revisions\/85797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}