{"id":1955,"date":"2024-12-30T23:48:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T23:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2024-12-30T23:48:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T23:48:20","slug":"my-favourite-christmas-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/my-favourite-christmas-song\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favourite Christmas Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is perhaps my favourite Christmas song &#8211; written by Michael Praetorius and arranged here by Jan Sandstr\u00f6m<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Voces8 are an ensemble that I have featured often and are here joined by Ringmasters.  This song, like the previous post, was used in a <a href=\"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/too-early-for-christmas\/\">different, more modern, version<\/a> previously in this blog.<\/p>\n<p>Although fast music requires a certain dexterity I am more impressed by anyone who can perform something really slowly without losing the musicality &#8211; it is a much more difficult skill to master in my opinion.  Here we have, perhaps, the slowest performance of this song that I have heard &#8211; but performed beatifully.<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ifNwczydLdM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Voces8 &#038; Ringmasters : Det \u00e4r en ros utsprungen<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ifNwczydLdM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is perhaps my favourite Christmas song &#8211; written by Michael Praetorius and arranged here by Jan Sandstr\u00f6m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[77,82,118],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-choral","tag-early-music","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}