In class today, we talked about the importance of music in the Bible in the book of Psalms, and we even listened to some songs by artists that used a few verses from certain Psalms. I have always known that this book of the Bible were actually songs, which has always made me wonder what they would have sounded like when they were originally written. It was interesting to listen to the songs that used a Psalm, while the band was also using their own style and really made this song their own. What is interesting and something that I have never thought about is whether this is their own interpretation of this Psalm, or have they taken complete possession over the song they made and just added a few verses from a Psalm? It is fascinating how U2 used these verses, which have always meant to be music but are written in a book as text, and combining them with their own style and genre of music.
Something else that I was brought to my attention was how books and texts are not as subject to change in interpretation as music can be. In music, you can use lyrics as a base and really apply any genre or style of music or variance of pitch you want. In books and other texts, there is one less dimension, lacking the ability to change the sound or pitch like music can. I have never thought of music in this way, but it now makes sense why music can be so powerful: because it has this extra dimension that can be subject to change.