{"id":582,"date":"2015-05-09T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=582"},"modified":"2015-05-09T09:28:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T13:28:09","slug":"musica-sacra-song-of-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2015\/05\/09\/musica-sacra-song-of-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Naughtiest Bits of Musica Sacra\u2019s Sexy \u2018Song of Songs\u2019 Performance Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CXebCiMyZ0A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tonight the Cambridge choral ensemble <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicasacra.org\/050915.html\">Musica Sacra<\/a> sings selections from the Bible\u2019s notoriously lascivious \u201cSong of Songs.\u201d These Bible passages, as set to music by various composers over the years, sound heavenly, but make no mistake, as the eminences at Wikipedia inform us, this holy scripture \u201ccelebrates sexual love.\u201d So as a public service, below I\u2019ve quoted some of the naughtiest bits that they plan to perform at First Church Congregational in Cambridge at 8 p.m.:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.<br \/>\nYour navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks wine.<br \/>\nYour belly is a heap of wheat encircled with lilies.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014from \u201dMotet 25\u201d by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour two breasts are as two fawns, twins of a gazelle.<br \/>\nThy nose is as a tower of ivory.<br \/>\nThine eyes are like the pools in Hesebon.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014from \u201dMotet 26\u201d by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome, my beloved, let us go to the countryside,<br \/>\nlet us spend the night in the villages.<br \/>\nLet us go early to the vineyards<br \/>\nto see if the vines have budded,<br \/>\nif their blossoms have opened,<br \/>\nand if the pomegranates are in bloom\u2014<br \/>\nthere I will give you my breasts.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014from \u201cVeni, dilecte mi\u201d by Wolfram Buchenberg (b. 1962)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight the Cambridge choral ensemble Musica Sacra sings selections from the Bible\u2019s notoriously lascivious \u201cSong of Songs.\u201d These Bible passages, as set to music by various composers over the years, sound heavenly, but make no mistake, as the eminences at Wikipedia inform us, this holy scripture \u201ccelebrates sexual love.\u201d So as a public service, below [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}