The Bible and Music

In class today, we started off by discussing more apps or tools for our final project that we found. Some that were suggested by my peers were autochords.com, Medly, and Mixcraft. These were in addition to the other ones from last class. To be honest, I am really nervous for the final project because I am not musically or artistically inclined at all. I am more of a pen and paper take a test or write a paper kind of person rather than something so out of my boundaries, like making music. I am dreading this project, but I think I can find a way to do it well.

The Romantic Era started with Beethoven. This whole era was about emotion over form. Everyone wanted to play on people’s emotion rather than sound “professional” or “classical.” The instruments that the class said were used a lot in romantic music were the saxophone, violin, piano, and acoustic guitar. The Song of Songs was something we discussed a lot. It is also referred to as the Song of Solomon. It has a lot of love poetry (Professor McGrath also called it erotic poetry, which was true when we looked at the poem). It doesn’t sound like a conventional poem or something a woman would really want to receive. Then again, words and music are up to personal taste. We also defined an allegory which is the use of a commonly known thing to relate another topic to. The love theme uses romantic era music, called leit motif, which is like a character’s theme, for example Darth Vader’s. This was ominous and daunting to listen to and picture, even though I have never personally watched the Star Wars movies, you can tell a lot from someone’s theme song. In Samson and Delilah, of the many versions we listened to, they all have the same lyrics which are just portrayed differently from one another.