{"id":78,"date":"2003-06-17T21:32:43","date_gmt":"2003-06-18T03:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=78"},"modified":"2003-06-17T21:32:43","modified_gmt":"2003-06-18T03:32:43","slug":"music-hath-charms-to-soothe-the-savage-breast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2003\/06\/music-hath-charms-to-soothe-the-savage-breast\/","title":{"rendered":"Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are some songs that reach down and hit me every time I hear them.  Was reminded yesterday that the 2nd movement of Beethoven&#8217;s 7th Symphony is one of<br \/>\nthem&#8230;stayed in the car yesterday after driving back from rehearsal so I could hear it all.  Also among these gems are: <UL><br \/>\n<LI>the Queen of the Night&#8217;s aria from Act 2 of Zauberfl?te<br \/>\n<LI>Barber&#8217;s Adagio for Strings<br \/>\n<LI>Strau?&#8217; Radetzky March<br \/>\n<LI>&#8220;Ah, leave me not to pine&#8221; from Act 2 of Pirates<br \/>\n<LI>Albinoni\/Giazotto Adagio in G minor<br \/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n<p>And the full quote is:<br \/>\n<PRE><br \/>\nMusic hath charms to soothe the savage breast,<br \/>\nTo soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.<br \/>\n<\/PRE><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s &#8216;breast&#8217;, not &#8216;beast&#8217;, and is from &#8220;The Mourning Bride,&#8221; Act i. Sc. 1., of William Congreve (1670?-1729).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some songs that reach down and hit me every time I hear them. Was reminded yesterday that the 2nd movement of Beethoven&#8217;s 7th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-1g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}