Is All Music Created Equal? Part 8

Is All Music Created Equal? Part 8

              If Christian musicians avoid all of the more intricate and developed sacred music, they run the risk of not supporting the majesty, glory, and honor of our awesome God with music that is more capable of representing these great spiritual themes of the Bible.  Sometimes Christian musicians seem to forget why some musical works are referred to as sacred classics. A classic is by definition a work of art of recognized and established value and in this case it is an artistic musical work that has proven itself to be a quality vehicle for the sacred content that it embodies.  A musical work of this nature is a more intricate and many times a more complicated working out of the formal properties and structure of the music. 

            These sacred classics have the capacity to deliver more designated and embodied meaning than a work of less musical stature.  One of the concepts that I am stressing is that the greater the working out of the music the greater the payoff in aesthetic value.  Also the greater one understands the import of the embodied meaning of this music, the greater will be the understanding that the performer and the auditor receives.  This conclusion is gathered from understanding that all quality music has a greater amount of understandable embodied meaning in the music and designated (referential) meaning which is given to the music from outside of the formal properties of the music itself than the more simple vehicles have.