{"id":359,"date":"2004-09-09T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=359"},"modified":"2004-09-09T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-09T06:24:00","slug":"is-there-anything-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"Is there anything better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there anything better than sacred vocal music from the early Renaissance?  I&#8217;ve got the Tallis Scholars doing the Victoria Requiem, and next in the queue is the Trio Medieval doing a variety of stuff in the same style.  There&#8217;s an absolute purity in the use of the primary intervals.  Combined with the lack of overtrained and ostentatious vibrato&#8230;it&#8217;s like they&#8217;re painting with overtones.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s music like this that gives me the belief that beauty exists in the world, rather than simply in the eye of the beholder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there anything better than sacred vocal music from the early Renaissance? I&#8217;ve got the Tallis Scholars doing the Victoria Requiem, and next in the queue is the Trio Medieval doing a variety of stuff in the same style. There&#8217;s an absolute purity in the use of the primary intervals. Combined with the lack of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}