Thursday, July 14, 2016

Progress and conclusion

As i am being subjected to the music of the guy in the office next to me, it has occurred to me why New Age music seems so vacuous.  It doesn't go anywhere.  When you listen to the classical or baroque composers, their music travels.  It has a specific beginning, climax and conclusion, New Age music does not.  It picks up with a catchy and typically playing melody, goes for awhile and then stops.  I would compare this to walking in circles. 
I would argue that this sort of destination-less music is unchristian simply because it does not tell the truth about reality.  Our lives are never stagnant, we are either growing our diminishing.  We are moving forward toward our goal or we are sliding backward.
This is really more of a philosophical statement than a critique of music. 

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