{"id":2104,"date":"2010-05-26T10:11:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T15:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2010-05-26T11:04:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T16:04:09","slug":"like-as-the-hart-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/projects\/2010\/like-as-the-hart-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Like as the Hart (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Like as the Hart<\/em> is my response to Herbert Howells&#8217;s famous setting of this Psalm paraphrase.  I have always been obsessed with the length of Howells&#8217;s melodies and the way that the harmonies trail behind the tunes like halos.  In my version, I invert this relationship, with massive elongated harmonies dragging melodic fragments behind them.  I arranged the harmonies in a large arch form with shrinking and expanding rhythms on either side of the central point (on the word &#8220;God.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Like as the Hart<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks,<br \/>\nso longeth my soul after thee, O God.<br \/>\nMy soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God<br \/>\nwhen shall I come to appear before the presence of God?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like as the Hart is my response to Herbert Howells&#8217;s famous setting of this Psalm paraphrase. I have always been obsessed with the length of Howells&#8217;s melodies and the way that the harmonies trail behind the tunes like halos. In my version, I invert this relationship, with massive elongated harmonies dragging melodic fragments behind them. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2117,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions\/2117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}