{"id":1142,"date":"2025-11-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2025-11-14T14:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:35:26","slug":"contemplating-some-hidden-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/?p=1142","title":{"rendered":"Contemplating Some Hidden Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Albumleaf 214: October 16, 2025 (Bologna)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are some ideas in this one.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the dense, cloudy chords, the music extracts perfect fifths (first heard at 0:05), the most consonant interval between two different pitches, a symbol of the absolute, an ideal, a concept of perfection, \u201chidden words.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in two instances, dissonant intervals emerge from the chords.\u00a0 In the first case, a harsh major seventh (0:28)\u2014an interval to represent anxiety and doubt.\u00a0 After more perfect fifths (like, at 0:54), a second dissonant interval emerges: a major ninth (1:24)\u2014a less dissonant interval, less anguished and doubtful; in fact, the interval is simply two stacked perfect fifths.\u00a0 Some peace has been gained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meter is also in three, the historical \u201ctempus perfectum\u201d of music.&nbsp; But the meter is articulated only faintly: its perfection is always there, but it\u2019s not always easy to perceive<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, the piece is a small statement of faith, of the healing potential of religious contemplation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Contemplating-Some-Hidden-Words-Albumleaf-214.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albumleaf 214: October 16, 2025 (Bologna) There are some ideas in this one.&nbsp; From the dense, cloudy chords, the music extracts perfect fifths (first heard at 0:05), the most consonant interval between two different pitches, a symbol of the absolute, an ideal, a concept of perfection, \u201chidden words.\u201d But in two instances, dissonant intervals emerge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albumleaves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}