Month: November 2021

when one makes theological music one’s own theology and the place where they live can heavily affect what someone creates. it can affect what texts we even try to put to music because we are more likely to make music that pertains to things or topics we find important to ourselves. or even the type… Continue reading how theological music we make can be affected by our own lives.

most people think that the work “the messiah” falls into the category oratorio however they are further from the truth than they think. since oratorio is defined as an opera without the costumes and acting. the messiah does not have characters in it at all which excuses it for the oratorio category.  this song followed… Continue reading thoughts on the “messiah” by G.F.Haendel

music can greatly affect how we see things that they are paired with. they can make thing pull harder on our heartstrings than if it was accompanied by silence. that is my songs in biblical movies like the prince of Egypt even though they never happened in the actual story they were based on can… Continue reading music in biblical movies

making music has become much easier as time goes on and technological advances increase. in ancient times there was not much in the way for making sure that a song came out the same way it was played originally since there was nothing in the way of sheet music to be used or anything to… Continue reading making music back then vs now.

all religious music trakes reference to bible verses in one way or another. either through referencing biblical symbols or by paraphrasing bible verses. this brings up the question of why people don’t use bible verses verbatim that often. the answer to that question is that using exact wording on a story that did not originally… Continue reading religious music creation and paraphrase’s

chanting is one of the earliest and most likely easiest ways to make music that could be passed down because of its simplicity. chanting did not focus on how the words were sung due to the lack of a shared musical system but more so on what was sung. the most that would be put… Continue reading chanting- why it was used.

before recording, music or even sheet music was a thing songs were passed down orally through the generations. since the way things are passed down through memories of the song, it is guaranteed that we will never hear music from those ancient times exactly how they sounded back then. the only way for us to… Continue reading music before sheet music

in our very first classes, we listened to the song “dry bones” by the delta rhythm boys. when I first listened to the song I never realized that it was biblically related. I never knew until it was brought up in the class for the first time that it was based on a story in… Continue reading dry bones- the overlooked biblical hymns

We have talked multiple times about how much music is affiliated with the Bible, it is pretty much our entire class. I was curious to see exactly how much music was actually in the Bile, so I looked it up, and a surprising 43% of the Bible is solely music. A fact that is very… Continue reading How much of the Bible is actually music?

We have been working on finding biblical allusions in popular music for a while and today we got to share one of our examples to the class on zoom. I enjoyed this activity because it was fun and interesting to find songs that had biblical meanings that I did not expect to have. A lot… Continue reading Scavenger Hunt