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This week we also started to talk about the Psalms as well as prayer found in the Bible that has been turned into music.  Focusing on the Psalms and how important they are to this class the Bible and Music as a whole was one thing, as many of the lectures we have previously had,… Continue reading Psalms and Prayer Turned into Music

This week we started by talking about the romance and love that is found throughout the Bible and how those stories of romance and love have been turned in music.  As you look at just about any genre of music, you find that most songs in those genres sing about love and romance.  So while… Continue reading Romance, the Bible, and Music

This week we continued by learning about John Rutter and Arvo Part.  Both of which are still living composers and are more modern than those we have previously talked and learned about in class.  John Rutter is more a contemporary composer whose works have been more popular with the general public.  He has set quite… Continue reading Arvo Part and John Rutter

This week we started by reading and learning about Arnold Schoenberg a musician who pushed the boundaries and experimented in new ways to create new music.  He is known for having first pioneered free atonality which is music without a specific tone that is the guide, and also for music known as “serialism”.  Serialism is… Continue reading Arnold Schoenberg

This week we started with talking about children’s songs based on the Bible and everyone gave an example of a song and then talked a little about it.  To be honest when I think about children’s songs in general, the songs that I always come up with are Biblical children’s songs, I can’t really think… Continue reading Children’s songs based on the Bible

We continued this week exploring the song we created in the last class discovering that it could also be a rock song set to the right music and doesn’t necessarily have to be stuck in one genre of music.  Then we began to talk about King David and some stories and also explored David as… Continue reading David

This week we began by talking about the songs Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis and how both songs have been taken by many musicians and using the same text but making them completely different songs by changing the style, rhythm, or notes to make them sound different from one another.  So, we spent the class talking… Continue reading Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis

This week we are also learning about Passions, which are musical settings of the suffering and Crucifixion of Christ.  This came as a result of Bach really creating what are called Passions with his works, “Passion according to St. Matthew” and “Passion according to St. John.” He was one of the few to give a… Continue reading Bach’s Passions and Passions in General

This week we are learning about Johann Sebastian Bach after last week focusing on George Frideric Handel and his music.  They both are from the same country and both born in the same year, becoming two of the greatest musicians of their time and creating music that was similar in some ways although different in… Continue reading J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel

Today, September 23, 2021, in class we talked about Handel’s Messiah and some of his works and how they relate to each other.  Handel’s Messiah is an oratorio without the character and is considered one of Handel’s greatest works.  At first when beginning to listen to it you realize that it is two hours long… Continue reading Handel’s Messiah