Our topic of conversation in class today was all about more unconventional melodies, scales, and methods of creating a piece of music. I will admit, today’s class did not include some of my favorite music we’ve listened to, it was definitely necessary to learn about. Music is a beautiful thing, and you can never create the same piece of music twice, but you can get very close to sounding similar. That’s why I thought Schoenberg’s work in particular was very unique. He wanted freeing, different music, something that was not the same as had been heard before. In the context of the Bible and music, I think it is a great thing to set Biblical texts to unconventional tunes. I think it is a great symbolism to the Bible, at one time, being unconventional. Just as Schoenberg was shunned for his use of odd scales and such, his work began to gain popularity. Some people may hate it, others ignore it, shun it, or even love it, but they cannot deny the uniqueness and the craft that it took produce such a work. The same thing can be said for the Bible. The intersection between Schoenberg’s music and the Bible was fascinating. For example, how he translated the stories of Moses and Aaron into the piece of work that he did was definitely never done before. Schoenberg accomplished a great challenge by reevaluating what standard and Biblical music should sound like.