The Bible and Music

Yesterday in class, we started by listening to a familiar song. I recognized the song but could not come up with the name. It turned out the song was “Greensleeves”. Then we moved on to the songs we had to listen to for homework. I enjoyed learning more about the different instruments used and illustrated in pictures. I learned about some of the instruments in my world religions class in my senior year of high school. This class in many ways reminds me of that class. While my high school class focused on many different religions, this class sticks to the Bible. I enjoy that because I know more about the Bible. I look forward to applying my previous knowledge later in class.

I also found it very interesting when we were discussing that if you take away the music and leave the lyrics, you have poetry. It makes me think that anything can be turned into music. I believe a lot of music develops from other forms of music. Like how the second link we had for homework sounds like Gregorian chanting, yet it is Ancient Greek music. I like to think that all music is inspired by other forms of music.