{"id":4881,"date":"2016-05-14T11:03:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T01:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4881"},"modified":"2016-05-14T11:03:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T01:03:34","slug":"a-hundred-violins-may-play-softer-than-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4881","title":{"rendered":"A hundred violins may play softer than one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Holmes &#8220;reiterates that only with a large group can you get a truly soft sound. Sure, a solo fiddle can hold its own against a hundred fiddles: a hundred fiddles are never a hundred times louder than a solo at the same dynamic, since there&#8217;s no such animal as &#8220;a same dynamic,&#8221; or even a true unison, except by computer. But a hundred fiddles can play <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">softly<\/span> more convincingly than three: by the nature of things they&#8217;re more in tune.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ned Rorem (2000) <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Lies: A Diary 1986-1999. \u00a0<\/span>Cambridge: MA: Da Capo Press, p.82.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Holmes &#8220;reiterates that only with a large group can you get a truly soft sound. Sure, a solo fiddle can hold its own against a hundred fiddles: a hundred fiddles are never a hundred times louder than a solo at the same dynamic, since there&#8217;s no such animal as &#8220;a same dynamic,&#8221; or even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[584],"tags":[1268,1259,22],"class_list":["post-4881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composers-quotes","tag-john-holmes","tag-ned-rorem","tag-orchestration"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4882,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions\/4882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}