As some of you may know, I am a huge lover of music. My appreciation of music covers a very wide range of styles, with the exception of county and marching band. Other than that, I can see the skill, or lack thereof, in many didn't genres.
As of late, something has popped into mind. I have noticed that my appreciation of Orthodox church music is in a completely different category than my appreciation of any other music style. Initially, my thought was simply that, because church music is music for church, ones like or dislike would need based on one's view of church. In other words, I appreciate Orthodox church music simply because I am Orthodox.
But I think there is more to it than that. I am starting to think that 99% of music is made from a very worldly, temporal perspective. It seems that music is created out of one's passions. This would explain why the "best" music (or even just art in general) is made by people who have done sort of issues, whether due to really bad childhoods or did sin/perversions in their life.
If this assessment is correct, then the conclusion we must draw is something painful. If all music, with the exception of actual religious music (and I'm not talking about contemporary Protestant music, that's just bad all together), is based upon and created out of the passions, then listening to it would only move us into passion instead of into things godly and eternal.
I don't think I like where this is going...
Any thoughts?
Sunday, August 21, 2016
An experiment in music
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