{"id":3035,"date":"2008-05-24T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2008-05-24T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2008-05-24T20:00:17","slug":"chanting-in-the-pisa-baptistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2008\/05\/24\/chanting-in-the-pisa-baptistry\/","title":{"rendered":"Chanting in the Pisa Baptistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael,<\/p>\n<p>On our way to the Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa, we learned that the Baptistry (adjacent to the Duomo and the Torre) has wonderful echoing acoustics. The echoes are exploited by chanting singers every half hour during the day, so I came to the Baptistry ready to record.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a big file (85 MB), so I couldn&#8217;t just attach it to my message, you&#8217;ll have to download it.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and there&#8217;s a problem &#8212; it&#8217;s rotated sideways. Can you use your iMovie powers to rotate it upright after downloading it to your site? Even if you can&#8217;t do the rotation, it&#8217;s nice to have it just to listen to the chanting and the echoes of the singing.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/blog_movies\/PisaBaptistryChanting\/PisaBaptistryChanting.mov\" title=\"Chanting\">here<\/a> and watch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;rakkity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael, On our way to the Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa, we learned that the Baptistry (adjacent to the Duomo and the Torre) has wonderful echoing acoustics. The echoes are exploited by chanting singers every half hour during the day, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2008\/05\/24\/chanting-in-the-pisa-baptistry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rakkity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}