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

David,
 
Just checking if you received my private e-mail regarding your Web site
(broken link on the 3rd, no sound on the last). Didn't know if you had
e-mail filtering against unknown e-mail addresses. It's not necessary to
reply to this one, and/or you can reply privately off-list.
 
 
Jon Tandy
 <http://www.arcom.com/>

-----Original Message-----
From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of David Opderbeck
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 8:14 PM
To: Iain Strachan
Cc: Jack Haas; ASA list
Subject: 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)!

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Received on Fri Nov 3 08:25:49 2006