The Bible and Music

Today in class we talked about Mary in the Bible (both the virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene). For some reason this bridged into a conversation about what to do when you have no idea what to do or no inspiration for an assignment. Then we proceeded to assign different amounts of beats to each word in the song of Mary and shared for the class.  Something I noticed was that a lot of people chose to emphasize the same words, such as Lord or soul, by assigning them longer times musically. I think that it comes naturally from our exposure to media and stuff and how certain things are portrayed to us in the media or in religious education, as well as just the flow of language.