The Bible and Music

Today’s class focused on the early development of music. Before today’s class, I had never considered that written music hasn’t always looked the same throughout time and across different countries. When I was in middle school we were required to learn how to play an instrument, so I used to know how to read simple sheet music, but I never thought of it as a language. It makes sense that written music would resemble the written language of a culture, so it’s interesting that nowadays music notes don’t resemble written language at all.

Although the instruments used during ancient times had limited musical ranges they could play in, I still think they sound very beautiful and that, perhaps, their limited ranges contribute to that beauty. There’s something very appealing about the simple sounds the instruments make that is similar to how the monk chants are calming or appealing.