God Created-- Man Arranges

                                        God Created-- Man Arranges
                               (God out of perfection—Man out of imperfection)

               God truly created music. Although the word created is used loosely by many musicians, man never actually creates music or anything else for that matter.  God took nothing and made something--that something was music.  Music composers and arrangers only "construct"—they are only capable of "arranging"  or moving God's created musical building blocks into new artistic patterns. 

           A contractor who builds a building takes created materials and uses them to construct something.  He always takes "something" and constructs with these materials.  No matter how great a building a contractor constructs, or how much creative effort he exerts, what he puts together is not truly a creation.  We will not be able to discuss “creativeness” further in this discussion since it belongs under the topic “Creativity and the Christian Musician”.  These “creative” acts are not like God’s acts of real creation as recorded in the Genesis Record.  I will simply say here that a composer or arranger’s creative processes are much like the work of a Contractor.  They are only artistic efforts that produce artistic constructions—these creative efforts produce results that we call musical compositions.