I Believe-Truisms & Intellectual Property- part 3

 

I Believe that the following are Music Truisms:

  Music is not amoral.

  All music has a message.

  All music has meaning.

  All serious composers strive to say something with their art.

  All music affects the listener either positively or negatively, physically, mentally and spiritually.

  All music, both sacred and secular, matters.

  All Christians are responsible to make wise choices of both sacred and secular music.  

I Believe that  All Music Performance Should be Intellectually Honest

  One of the artistic obligations of any performer is to perform all music the way that the composer intended that it should be performed.  Surely Christian musicians should be as honest as non-Christians in the matter of honoring  someone's intellectual property.

  If you believe that you should perform religious hard rock music, it should be performed in “hard rock style” in the following intellectually honest manner:

   The rhythm should dominate the other elements of the music. 

   The rhythm should be performed with heavy offbeat rhythmic accents

   The rhythm should give the music a driving forward propelling directionality

   The rhythm should incessantly drive without any feeling of rest or repose.
   The rhythm should at least partially cover up the vocals. 

   The music must be loud; it must be incessant. It must not flow from repose-tension-repose.  The phrases    must not have recognizable beginning climax and final repose.

   If it is vocal music, it must be performed with non-vocal techniques, i.e. all chest voice, harsh tone, screaming or glottal shocks.