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Motive
A reason for doing something; especially one that is hidden or not obvious.
A musical fragment or succession of notes that has some special importance or intension.
Motive
In a song, is it the music or the lyrics that matter the most?
Sandi Patti
Music is a very powerful force. It has a way of breaking down barriers....
CCM Artist
Sandi Patti
But a lot of artists are taking that very powerful tool and putting negative, horrible lyrics to it, and those lyrics are getting into the hearts of the listeners and are shaping their values.... CCM Artist
Sandi Patti
Why cant we [i.e., contemporary Christian musicians] take that same powerful force music put positive lyrics to it and begin shaping values that CCM Artist way?
David Meece
Basically you have to focus on the lyrics, and what the song is saying. That is my criteria to decide whether the song is right or wrong.
CCM Artist
David Meece
It has nothing to do with the music style. It has to do with the lyrics." What is the song saying? What are the words saying? As Christians, we can objectively judge it from that standpoint.
Anxious Uneasy
If the thoughts are wrong, the feelings will be wrong; and the thoughts and feelings combined make up the moral character.
When we decide that as Christians we are not required to restrain our thoughts and feelings, we are brought under the influence of evil angels, and invite their presence and their control.
Robert Palmer
I believe in the transformative power of rock n roll, this transformative power adheres not so much in the words of the songs but in the music itself, in the sound and above all in the beat.
Rock & Roll An Unruly History, Robert Palmer
Graham Cray
"In all pop music, lyrics are secondary. Pop is music of feeling, spoken primarily to the body and only secondary to the intellect."
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Spiritual Music (S) Spiritual Lyrics (S) Non-Carnal Non-Spiritual Lyrics (N)
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Our thinking and our behavior are colored by music, which seems to have direct and unconscious access to the brain substrates of much, if not all, of our individual lives.
Dr. Norman M. Weinberger
Professor Neurobiology and Behavior at UC Irvine
"We sing or produce whatever music we want to because the Bible says we can!"
Speaking to yourselves in psalms psalms and hymns and hymns spiritual songs, spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Greek word for spiritual is non-carnal!
Ephesians 5:19
The combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce chords and chord progressions with a pleasing effect.
Joseph Haydn
"Melody is the main thing; harmony is useful only to charm the ear."
Harmony:
The perception of depth, perspective, mood, color and atmosphere is joined to melody through harmony. In a well-written piece of music, the harmony will be supportive of the melody and play a subservient, though crucial role.
Common Time
Marching Beat
Conga Beat
Basic Beat
Medium Beat
Club Beat
Many More
MELODY HARMONY
RHYTHM
"Rhythm is the element of music most closely allied to BODY MOVEMENT [fleshly, carnal], to PHYSICAL action. Its simpler patterns when repeated over and over [which is exactly what rock does] can have a hypnotic effect on us".
The Enjoyment of Music, Joseph Machlis p.19
"They also have shown that driving drum rhythms in excess of three to four beats per second will put the brain into a state of stress.
Regardless if the listener likes or dislikes the music. When the brain is in a stressful state, it will release opioidsa group of hormones that function like morphineto help return itself to normal equilibrium.
These opioids, when experienced often enough, can be addicting and the listener seeks for the high again. (This is why listeners tend to move from less to harder music.)
These steady drum rhythms release in the body gonadotrophins (sex hormones), which enhances sexual arousal.
Loud, booming bass music has a similar effect and its no wonder that adolescent males prefer these types of music: they are either stimulating a release of brain chemical, stimulating their hormones, or both!
Sound Effects...
"The sexuality of music is usually referred to in terms of it's rhythm it is the BEAT that commands a directly PHYSICAL response."
Sound Effects, Youth, Leisure, and the Politics of Rock n Roll, Simon Frith p.240
Aerosmith
"Rock music is the strongest drug in the world." Steven Tyler
Donnie Brewer
"We take the kids away from their parents and their environment to where the only reality is the rhythm and the BEAT."
Satans Music Exposed, Lowell Hart p.102
King George I
One shining example of the power of order in music is King George I of England. King George had problems with memory loss and stress management.
King George I
He read from the Bible the story of King Saul and recognized that Saul had experienced the same type of problems that he was experiencing. The King recognized that Saul overcame his problems by using special music.
King George I
With this story in mind King George asked George Frederick Handel to write some special music for him that would help him in the same way that music helped Saul. Handel wrote his "Water Music" for this purpose.
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