{"id":1095,"date":"2012-05-04T17:49:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T21:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2012-05-04T17:49:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T21:49:17","slug":"it-is-truly-meet-sung-in-american-idiom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/it-is-truly-meet-sung-in-american-idiom\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It is Truly Meet&#8230;&#8221; Sung in an American Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/theotokos.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/theotokos-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"theotokos\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1096\" \/><\/a>The monks at St. John Monastery in California released this Hymn to the Theotokos a while back sung in an American idiom. They want to see how the Byzantine hymns could be sung in a way true to their musical meaning yet incorporating the tones and cadences that are unique to America and define our cultural legacy (think music scores for Westerns for example).  <\/p>\n<p>I think they succeed. It almost sounds like it could be sung around a campfire, yet at the same time it still has the Byzantine feel to it. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c04QTftw4X4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The monks at St. John Monastery in California released this Hymn to the Theotokos a while back sung in an American idiom. They want to see how the Byzantine hymns could be sung in a way true to their musical meaning yet incorporating the tones and cadences that are unique to America and define our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}