Sacred Music Should Be Worthwhile Music-Part 2

Sacred music Should Always Be Worthwhile Music-Part 2  

        I have decided that it would be an excellent idea to consider some of the words that DeVinney used in the quote mentioned in yesterday’s introduction.  First there is the word “profound” which we will define as music that searches into the deep and subtle areas of truth and beauty.  The reason I stated truth and beauty is simply that the aesthetics of music does not necessarily deal directly with truth.  Also, profound music composed without words will require deep thought and knowledge of its formal properties in order to be able to unlock its understanding. 

       If the listener believes that the trombonist he is watching is swallowing the trombone slide as he plays, that person is not knowledgeable enough to make philosophical and or musical decisions.  With the popularity of “dumbing” down church music, profundity in music is not often high on the priority list of many church musicians.  Profundity is not the popular music praxis of many very knowledgeable Christian musicians who are worship leaders. 

       So, there needs to be some scrutinizing the “profoundness” of the text and the music part of the music that a Christian performs.  Many ministers of music are not  bothered by the fact  that they are projecting song texts on the overhead screen that do not  include the basic, necessary  and proper punctuation marks  for the coherent presentation of  an English text.  If they do not include punctuation, it is evident that they do not understand this lyric poetry as English rhetoric.  Certainly they are not concerned about the cognitive presentation of the text.  If they did, punctuation would be considered absolutely necessary to his or her music praxis.