Paul Brandt Music Analysis

This speech is Karl Paulnack’s welcoming address for incoming freshman students. He addresses that music isn’t apart of arts and entertainment rather music is an invisible force that helps us piece ourselves together. Paulnack believes that music is an essential part of life and goes to prove it by telling his experiences with it. He describes the first moment he truly understood music and the impact it has on people. Paulnack portrays the day after 9/11 after he struggles to find any meaning in being a pianist. After a long time of questioning himself he observes the city and notices something. He sees that in this time of grief and sadness people are singing. From this he learned that music is a form of expression, it allows people to express their feelings when they have no other words to describe them. Paulnack goes on to describe what he says was the most important concert of his life. He and a friend were playing a concert at a nursing home. During their performance, one man began to cry, it was at that time Paulnack knew the man was a veteran. After Paulnack and his friend finished the piece, they announced that the piece they were playing was Aaron Copland's Sonata, which was a work

In the book “A Long Way Gone” music plays a role as a healer and a saviour.

For as long as mankind has walked on this earth, music has been an important part of our culture and lifestyles. Each walk of life beats to a different drum. Different cultures use music for many aspects of their lives; for religious purposes, for celebrations, for comfort, for sorrow, for relaxation, for sports, for dances, for energy, for learning, for sleeping, and for sexual experiences. Everyone uses music for something. Music connects with people and reaches them in ways that words simply cannot. Music is a representation of what feelings sound like. It expresses emotion and brings that characteristic out from within us; it tells us a story. Every generation has its’ own sound and different music styles have emerged and become

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.

However, a critical aspect of the liberation themes characteristic of Black worship is its ability to refrain from becoming a victim of oppression of time. Although, liberation in African-American Christian worship is also manifest in the way of music performance, with Black singers and instrumentalists seldom being satisfied to render a piece as it exists in print. Consequently, most often they elect to search for music and songs that provokes a responsive exploit in the African-American soul and

are polluting our mind; however, there are people like Tasha Cobbs who music is uplifting, promotes peace, and love. Though many people do not want to admit it, the music we listen to plays a major role in our daily lives. My mind can be clogged up with doubts negative words said by others. Cobbs’ music, however, makes me have a sound mind and enables me to feel better about myself because my identity is not hidden in others but in Christ. The more positive music I listen to, the more I stay on the right path in life. For example, one of my friends told others a secret that we promised to not share with others. I could have listened to a song that promotes fighting and addressing people when they do you wrong, but instead I prayed and listened to a song covered by Tasha Cobbs “A heart that forgives”, and my mindset was changed and I went about the situation differently. Tasha Cobbs’ music also teaches me that I can always get along with others if I try to seek the best interest in others before I judge them, and that I do not have to have favoritism, but, I can be that light to show others that it is possible to unify our hearts and get along. There is a void in many people’s hearts, but love can fill this void, and that is what many people desire. Cobbs music helps me know that love conquers all things and that it is possible to live a life that is full of joy, in spite of what I may be going

This is article has taken an interest with both views of how music can affect you. The article examines Holocaust survivors and how they react to music. During the holocaust the Nazis used music as an element of torture. For instance, singing on command, where failure to obey or satisfy the guards could incur fatal consequences, was used to frighten, humiliate, and degrade prisoners. (Atarah 1223) Interviewing multiple survivors and examining how music effected their life before, during and after the Holocaust the article proves that it had

Hart said, “God is sound.” (Potter, 58) This quote resonated with me because no three words have ever spoken more truth. Coming from a musical, Catholic background, I have always been told that singing is praying twice. Music truly is a gift from God because God gave us the ability to hear.

“Adventists in the Arts” is an article telling the touching story of two young musicians, a beatboxer and a rapper, who bring the art of rap to the Adventist church, whether the older generation is ready or not. They met each other at school and began to work together creating several albums, the first not having any religious affiliation. They decided to create an album that walks the listeners through Daniel and Revelation. Debbonnaire Kovacs is very successful because she is able to catch the reader and bring them to her side. Through the elements of conflict and point of view the author is trying to convince her audience that Christian rap remains a viable art form capable of bringing new hearts to God.

In his eye-opening book, Jason Bivins analyzes the connection that jazz music has with American religion. Not many scholars have decided to address this area religious studies. He conducts interviews with multiple musicians, in an effort to grasp what level of impact that their religion or spirituality had on their work.

1. Discuss the use of music in Catholic and Protestant worship practice, from the development of polyphony, through the music of J.S. Bach. In so doing, discuss the shift in responsibility for musical development from the Catholic Church to the Lutheran Church.

Ask anyone whom they believe to be a musical “god,” and they can cite many proficient musicians: Classical prodigies like Mozart and Beethoven, 20th century modernist composers such as Shostakovich, Wagner, and Arnold Schoenberg; even rock and roll legends like Jimmy Page, Frank Zappa, or Jimi Hendrix. But this term, “musical god,” could only have originated from one: Apollo, the literal Greek god of music. No matter how often mortal musicians practiced and dedicated themselves to their instrument, Apollo could easily best them. The god’s prowess was the subject of contrast in Ancient Greek culture.

In this video, Ben Stuart discusses Psalm 1; he touches on a few different aspects of spirituality, using metaphors, stories, and examples to aid him in getting his point across. To begin the presentation, he brings up music: how it is a powerful force, how it can cause individuals to think, and how it is able to invoke emotion. He continues on, claiming that music is the “most natural medium to give expression to even the most profound human emotions”. After explaining why the book of Psalm is written as music--it allows us to properly display and share our feelings with God--he discusses that music is influential to our thoughts, therefore shaping what we care about, furthermore affecting what we chase. He later directly addresses Psalm

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

That's a huge spiritual, physical, and emotional win and that's the goal of music, to make us feel. This music makes us feel the holy spirit. This music is the most powerful music ever because I can be truly life-changing.