The physical movement of the performers over the course of the piece\u2014from a forward-facing position, to facing inward toward the harp, to finally facing away from the audience\u2014echoes the practice in the Roman Catholic mass of the priest turning his back to the congregation.<\/p>\n
The Latin text is from the beginning of the Latin Mass, of baptisms, and of exorcisms. \u201cAbrenuntia?\u201d (Ah-bray-noon-tsee-ah) is a question asked of the congregation, meaning \u201cDo you renounce?\u201d. The response is \u201cAbrenuncio!\u201d (Ab-bray-noon-see-oh), \u201cI renounce!\u201d. \u00a0These questions are part of a formal litany: \u201cAbrenuntia Satanae?\u201d, \u201cDo you renounce Satan?\u201d, and so on. In Numina<\/em> the renouncement is generalized and total<\/em>.<\/p>\n Numina notes<\/a>, further details from the preface to the musical score.<\/p>\n A preview of the upcoming studio recording:<\/strong><\/p>\n Numina-preview<\/a><\/p>\n A video excerpt from the premiere:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Click here to watch a video excerpt<\/a><\/p>\n And, a recent performance at the 2010 Spark Festival of Electronic Music<\/em> in Minneapolis, MN can be viewed here:<\/p>\n Numina for the Janus Trio<\/a><\/p>\n The physical movement of the performers over the course of the piece\u2014from a forward-facing position, to facing inward toward the harp, to finally facing away from the audience\u2014echoes the practice in the Roman Catholic mass of the priest turning his back to the congregation.<\/p>\n The Latin text is from the beginning of the Latin Mass, of baptisms, and of exorcisms. “Abrenuntia?” (Ah-bray-noon-tsee-ah) is a question asked of the congregation, meaning “Do you renounce?”. The response is “Abrenuncio!” (Ab-bray-noon-see-oh), “I renounce!”. \u00a0These questions are part of a formal litany: “Abrenuntia Satanae?”, “Do you renounce Satan?”, and so on. In Numina<\/em> the renouncement is generalized and total<\/em>.<\/p>\n Numina notes<\/a>, further details from the preface to the musical score.<\/p>\n A score for Numina<\/em> is also available. \u00a0It is licensed under a “Creative Commons” license, see below.<\/p>\n Numina Score,<\/a> PDF<\/p>\n The word numina (plural of \u201cnumen\u201d) is a Latin term meaning \u201cnoddings\u201d, referring in the old Roman religion to the physical gesture of a divine decree…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23,24,8,22],"tags":[15,53,16,9,37],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dramatic-music","category-electronic-music","category-ensemble-music","category-music","category-performances","tag-chamber","tag-dramatic-music","tag-electronic","tag-ensemble","tag-performance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":56,"href":"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1290,"href":"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/1290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/digital.music.cornell.edu\/kevinernste\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/P1040368-200x200.jpg\")
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