{"id":531,"date":"2007-03-22T06:14:47","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T14:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=517"},"modified":"2007-03-22T06:14:47","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T14:14:47","slug":"kyrie-eleison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2007\/03\/22\/kyrie-eleison\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrie Eleison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m working on some research this morning, I&#8217;m listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.choirs.org.uk\/prognotes\/Rutter%20-%20Requiem.htm\">Rutter&#8217;s Requiem<\/a>.  Rutter mixes aspects of the Catholic Requiem Mass with some texts from the Book of Common Prayer.  A Requiem is a Christian funeral liturgy.  There are aspects of Rutter&#8217;s setting that are somewhat dark and intense, though never so broken as something by, say, Arvo Part.  The truly moving of Rutter&#8217;s setting, though, is the Kyrie.  It resolves beautifully into a melodic, major tonality.  The sense is not of desperately pleading &#8220;Kyrie Eleison&#8221; (&#8220;Lord have mercy&#8221;), but rather of <em>experiencing<\/em> a mercy already known.  Maybe it&#8217;s just because I&#8217;ve been feeling a little wiggy this week and wrestling with my faith a bit, but when I heard Rutter&#8217;s Kyrie this morning I could close my eyes, take a deep breath, and feel it massaging those deep knots in my soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m working on some research this morning, I&#8217;m listening to Rutter&#8217;s Requiem. Rutter mixes aspects of the Catholic Requiem Mass with some texts from the Book of Common Prayer. A Requiem is a Christian funeral liturgy. There are aspects of Rutter&#8217;s setting that are somewhat dark and intense, though never so broken as something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-8z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}