Music: Annotated Bibliography

Music was also mentioned significantly in the instance where Sonny’s mother was seated at the window, after their father’s death, watching the street, waiting for Sonny and humming a church song. I believe that the song held significance in the story as it goes to show the religiosity of the mother and the pain and suffering she must have endured along the way. “There Mama sat, in black, by the window. She was humming an old church song. Lord you brought me from a long ways off”. Church songs are usually used to praise or admonish God. I believe that this song is used to praise God for the time she has spent on this earth and despite all her tribulations, she is still grateful, I feel like this song is a representation of what is to come, her death, which is why she follows up with asking Sonny’s brother to take care of Sonny if anything ever happened to

These different mindsets concerning the music caused a division to occur in the church. This example ties in with another point addressed in the Declaration and Address. And that is the point concerning what to do with doctrinal differences that are not based on clear and exact teachings in the New Testament and how that leads to division. There are a lot of things that come about in life that we can clearly read in the Bible is right or is wrong. With that being said it is simple to make definite rules and it is also simple to clear up arguments and disagreements when the answer is clearly seen in the Bible, because it is really hard to argue with a clear answer in the Bible when you are trying to use the Bible to back you up. However, what happens when there is not a clear teaching in the Bible? That is what happened with the

From the beginning of times, music has played an important role in everyone’s life. At first, it started with drum-based and percussion instruments made out of what was available as rocks and sticks. Our ancestors proved that human beings have an innate need of music. Nowadays, no one teaches a baby to follow the beat of a song, he just naturally lets his body get involved with the rhythm. Since the prehistoric era to Christian times, several forms of music have developed leaving a trail to new genres of music. For Christianity, hymns and plainchants were the first forms of music considered as a worship to God. As time passed by, Christian music has evolved giving way to new and fresh sounds.

From this point of view we have essentially four classes, the almost ritualistic prayer songs or pure Spirituals, the freer and more unrestrained evangelical "shouts" or camp-meeting songs, the folk ballads so overlaid with the tradition of the Spirituals proper that their distinctive type quality has almost been unnoticed until lately, and the work and labor songs of strictly significant character. Indeed, in the pure Spirituals one can trace the broken fragments of an evangelical folk liturgy, with confession, exhortation, "mourning," conversion and "love-feast" rejoicing as the general stages of a Protestant folk-mass. It is not a question of religious content or allusion, for the great majority of the Negro songs have this more delicate question of caliber of feeling and type of folk use. The distinctiveness of the Spirituals after all and their finest meaning resides in their musical elements. The characteristic beauty of the folk song is harmonic, in distinction to the more purely rhythmic stress in the secular music of the Negro, which is the basis of "ragtime" and "jazz"; while regarding the one as the African component in them, and the other as the modifying influence of the religious hymn.

Gospel songs combined religious lyrics with melodies and rhythms inspired by early blues and jazz. Many churches rejected this new integration of religious conviction and popular song as devil's music that had no place in a house of worship.

Usually when this went on with the babies I noticed that they would begin to cry. The younger people who didn't look as old as everyone else were the singers that went up onto the small podium where the priest was and began the singing of the songs. They were dressed somewhat like the priest, but just in a different color. They were very happy when they went up and did not have a problem going up on the podium to sing, they were actually very enthusiastic. One of the singers would actually talk right before and after a song to talk about the story of what song they were going to sing next, it was pretty awesome. I enjoyed the songs they sang and everyone together singing sounded even better, it gave me a happy feeling and made me want to sing

The choir only sang five songs, however, oddly enough their performance lasted almost forty-five minutes. In all of the songs but one, there was an abundance of repetition. I have not heard the majority of the songs they sang before, so I am unaware if this is how the songs are written or if this is simply how the Grammy award-winning choir chose to perform them, but they would sing one verse, which would flow into the bridge, and once they started the chorus they would sing it repeatedly. This, however, I found to be a great idea, seeing that all of the churchgoers were singing, dancing, and clapping along

The first song that I chose was Baptizing Down By The Creek. When I first listened to it, it just reminded me about the country music that we hear nowadays. They are so similar in the melody, and to me, it was not like the original gospel songs. Because first, it has a background music, which is played by guitar, usually the gospel music is a capella. Also, the mood of the song is not anger or sad, but more likely to be peaceful and satisfied. The second song that I chose was My Souls Been Anchored In the Lord. Unlike most of the other recordings, this specific recording is leading by the female singers, and the male singers seem like the accompanying. Also, they use a lot of call-and-response techniques in this song as well. The female singers mostly are the calling part, and the male singers are the responding part. This song brings me a strong feeling of faith and belief. Personally, I think there are lots of differences between these two specific songs. The first one has a melody that we can follow to sing; however, the second does not. The second one is sung in a capella, and obviously it is a polyrhythm song. The female and male vocals sing in different rhythms and

Music is the only medium that blesses both man and God at the same time and as such to see it as an entertainment factor within our worship services is a gross misunderstanding of its purpose. Music is made up of three elements: melody, harmony, and rhythm. Mankind is also made up of three parts: spirit, soul and body (1 Thess 5:23). It can be argued that music and the triune, or trichotomy, of mankind are intrinsically linked i.e. melody is likened to the spirit, harmony to the soul and rhythm to the body.

This premise is predicated on the hypothesis that music plays an independent and important role within scripture itself; that is to be an elevated carrier for liturgy and prayer, the use of which is mandated by God for corporate worship. Both corporate worship and individual faith would suffer if music were removed. As an act of worshipping obedience, and a way of more readily understanding and relating to God, we will examine

Music has always been very important to religion, and the music has always been changing. At the beginning, the music told a story of a biblical event. The current day music tells a story about life and how Jesus Christ can fix the problem because he is all powerful. Oratorio is one example of older religion music. The current type of religion music is called Contemporary Christian music. There is a lot of different types between these two. Oratorio and Contemporary music differs a lot; however, they both speak about the perfect Jesus Christ, but that is about all they have in commons.

The first half of the concert was only instrumental. There were two violins, two violas, and two cellos. They sat on stage with the violins one my right, then the violas in the middle, and the cellos on the end. The violins played a few songs solo. The second half of the concert was only the choir and a piano. Their performance started with the song Daybreak. The song Daybreak also had a few girls playing percussion, one of them had a tambourine. Using SHMRG, the Harmony of most of the choirs songs were very homophonic. The Melody of most of the songs were mainly slow, though a couple songs were very fast, and upbeat.

When the service started it began with prayer, during the service there were moments of prayer, and the service ended with prayer. Something that I found very entertaining was the form of worship that they used which was singing. They sang a lot of different songs that worshiped God. You could tell who went to church a lot because they knew all the songs by heart. For those like me that didn’t know the songs, the words were projected on to the wall so you could sing along with everyone else. There was also a live band that played the music to sing to. This part of the service was really entertaining to me and I really enjoyed it.

Music is playing a vital role in today’s world; it can draw billions of people from different parts of the world and arouse their emotional. Music is a popular way to communicate with others by express oneself in the lyrics. The song “Take me to church” is one of the controversial songs, and it attracts many attentions towards LGBT community.

Worship comes in different forms depending on how the church wants the service to proceed. For the Amazing Grace Church, the service began with the congregation singing a number of worship songs to the Lord that lasted for about an hour. Christian praise and worship by music, and in fact, music is a great tool for helping them feel closer to God. Music is an emotional language because it effectively affects their emotions and the lyrics can swell their hearts. There is nothing bigger and greater than the grace of God that is delivered to them from condemnation through the sacrifice of his own Son. Thus, Christian chooses to praise and worship Him by singing. While singing, the congregation stands on their feet and they seem to be affected by the songs in some way as they raise their hands as a sign of accepting the Lord into their hearts. The emotion that was thrown from the congregation was very distinctive to us as we could see that the songs are an important tool of expression. According to the pastor of the Amazing Grace Church, singing let the people focus on the worship, helps them respond to God’s grace and also guide them to reflect on God’s glory. In his opinion, singing mean nothing if people do not respond to what they have sang and related it to God and reflect it to make them better believers.