Re: [asa] Re: {asa}Music and Evolution

*I don't think it's the music that's the problem, it's the appalling
banality of the lyrics, compared to say a good old Wesley hymn, that
depresses me.*

But out of the many thousands of hymns that were written in the 18th-20th
centuries, about 50 have survived in the repetoir as truly exemplary
musically and lyrically, and many of those that seem exemplary to us
musically today started life as popular ballads and bar tunes. Most of what
was produced then was just as much tripe as the lesser stuff that is being
produced now. And there are outstanding worship songs, musically and
lyrically, that are being written now and will endure. Now excuse me while
I go tune my electric guitar (check out some of my original worship music at
http://www.davidopderbeck.com/songs.php)!

On 10/9/06, Iain Strachan <igd.strachan@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 10/9/06, Jack Haas <haas.john@comcast.net> wrote:
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> > One non-helpful comment might be to consider the state of music in the
> > typical (American) evangelical church today. Retroevolution? If only
> > they had a clue about Bach's work.
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> I don't think it's the music that's the problem, it's the appalling
> banality of the lyrics, compared to say a good old Wesley hymn, that
> depresses me.
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> Most modern evangelical music draws heavily on jazz chords, most of which
> were invented by Bach anyway!
>
> Iain
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Received on Mon Oct 9 21:14:48 2006