{"id":2095,"date":"2013-01-02T05:41:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T13:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2016-10-12T23:04:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T06:04:04","slug":"how-is-the-music-of-les-miserables-like-liturgy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/how-is-the-music-of-les-miserables-like-liturgy","title":{"rendered":"How Is the Music of Les Mis\u00e9rables Like Liturgy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the question that Jeffrey Tucker looks at in an article at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chantcafe.com\/2012\/12\/how-much-does-much-add-to-les-miserables.html\">The Chant Caf\u00e9<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The score is unusually text driven, just like liturgy. The singers in the film were chosen not for their singing ability but for their acting &#8212; which makes the singing more <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2098 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/lesmisposter2012.jpg\" alt=\"Les Miserables\" width=\"214\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/lesmisposter2012.jpg 214w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/lesmisposter2012-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/>authentic in some way. Their voices were not ruined by too much training and affectation. They seemed authentic because of this &#8212; again, a point that is replicated in a liturgical context.<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend that every priest and singer needs to see the film to understand the drama that is possible in the musical context. The application to liturgical worship makes the point that we are denying ourselves deeper spiritual experiences by settling for spoken Masses over sung ones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting comparison, one that some readers take issue with in the comment box at the end of the article.\u00a0Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chantcafe.com\/2012\/12\/how-much-does-much-add-to-les-miserables.html\">The Chant Caf\u00e9<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the question that Jeffrey Tucker looks at in an article at\u00a0The Chant Caf\u00e9. The score is unusually text driven, just like liturgy. The singers in the film were chosen not for their singing ability but for their acting &#8212; which makes the singing more authentic in some way. Their voices were not ruined by too much training and affectation. They seemed authentic because of this &#8212; again, a point that is replicated in a liturgical context. I highly recommend that every priest and singer needs to see&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2098,"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":true,"_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":[5,16,8,10],"tags":[369,333],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-movies","category-music","category-spirituality","tag-les-miserables","tag-liturgy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/lesmisposter2012.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-xN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3503,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/3503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}