The Bible and Music

This class took me a bit out of my comfort zone, but not in a bad way. We took a look at a few pieces and talked about Mary, which I found out was a very common name during those times. The activity we did in class was fun yet kind of difficult to me. I haven’t learned much about music or beats or how to incorporate beats to lyrics so it was interesting trying to do that. I always try so hard to not make eye contact so that I don’t get called on, but this class I was interested in trying to hear what I came up with. We tried adding beats to the first two lines of a familiar song, and everyone had come up with something different. My take away was being able to relate to other who deemed some lyrics more important than others and these are the words that held longer notes or had more instances. I went home and tried to clap along to some songs and write out the syllables, I still need more practice!