Ive ALWAYS found the best songs about God are written by "heathens".
The Batlord
06-14-2015 07:13 PM
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Originally Posted by RoxyRollah
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Ive ALWAYS found the best songs about God are written by "heathens".
Indeed.
Overcast
06-14-2015 07:41 PM
I love this.
The Batlord
06-14-2015 08:39 PM
DriveYourCarDownToTheSea
06-14-2015 08:45 PM
I do rather like some Christian music.
Lisnaholic
06-15-2015 05:49 PM
^ Well done, DriveYourCar ! I was wondering why everyone was so focused on modern music, especially when what Roxy says is so often the case:-
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Originally Posted by RoxyRollah
(Post 1601602)
I don't understand the lack of creativity when it comes to non secular music. It always strikes me as a slap in the face to God. Supreme being, mediocre praise though song, the math there adds up wrong. One would think they'd put a bit more effort or muse into music made as an act of worship.
For exhaulted, inspirational music in praise of their God, I think Christians did it better in the past. For instance, while all those Gothic cathedrals were being built in Europe, the German nun Hildegard von Bingen was writing devotional songs that are still performed today. Some of them are collected on an album called, "A Feather on the Breath of God"; nine hundred years later and her songs are still selling!That's quite an acheivement for a woman, and quite an album title too.
Meanwhile, back in the modern world, Phil Keaggy is also a very devout Christian songwriter. Not sure if his music will still be selling in 900 years though:- http://www.musicbanter.com/jazz-blue...il-keaggy.html
DriveYourCarDownToTheSea
06-15-2015 06:59 PM
^
What would be a really cool idea would be to take those 900-year old chants, interpret the words, and put them to a more modern arrangement. Imagine that piece in English, with an acoustic guitar and some woodwinds or even a synthesizer, or something like that. Enya meets von Bingen.
The Batlord
06-15-2015 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted by DriveYourCarDownToTheSea
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^
What would be a really cool idea would be to take those 900-year old chants, interpret the words, and put them to a more modern arrangement. Imagine that piece in English, with an acoustic guitar and some woodwinds or even a synthesizer, or something like that. Enya meets von Bingen.
Hipster Rule 34 has just been invoked. For this coming atrocity, I feel pure animosity, and could not be any less stoked.
Lisnaholic
06-15-2015 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted by DriveYourCarDownToTheSea
(Post 1602399)
What would be a really cool idea would be to take those 900-year old chants, interpret the words, and put them to a more modern arrangement. Imagine that piece in English, with an acoustic guitar and some woodwinds or even a synthesizer, or something like that. Enya meets von Bingen.
^ I don't really know, but I bet there are some projects like that around already.
RoxyRollah
06-16-2015 05:53 AM
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Originally Posted by DriveYourCarDownToTheSea
(Post 1602399)
^
What would be a really cool idea would be to take those 900-year old chants, interpret the words, and put them to a more modern arrangement. Imagine that piece in English, with an acoustic guitar and some woodwinds or even a synthesizer, or something like that. Enya meets von Bingen.
This genere exsits its playing at every single new aged book store.
