{"id":75668,"date":"2020-04-06T13:22:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T20:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10033\/?p=73556"},"modified":"2022-02-23T18:07:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T02:07:42","slug":"seven-instrumental-pieces-inspired-by-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/seven-instrumental-pieces-inspired-by-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Instrumental Pieces Inspired by Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMusic and poetry have ever been acknowledg\u2019d Sisters, which walking hand in hand, support each other; As Poetry is the harmony of Words, so Musick is that of Notes; and as Poetry is a Rise above Prose and Oratory, so is Musick the exaltation of Poetry. Both of them may excel apart, but sure they are most excellent when they are join\u2019d\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Henry Purcell wrote that in 1650, reflecting on vocal music. But poetry has often been a supporting sister for purely instrumental music as well, especially in the Romantic era, when instrumental composers were fascinated with extra-musical inspiration. Here are seven compositions for instruments which were inspired by poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMusic and poetry have ever been acknowledg\u2019d Sisters, which walking hand in hand, support each other; As Poetry is the harmony of Words, so Musick is that of Notes; and as Poetry is a Rise above Prose and Oratory, so is Musick the exaltation of Poetry. Both of them may excel apart, but sure they &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":75669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4056,4057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-fun","category-history"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2025-12-01 11:47:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}