UNDERSTANDING MUSIC
THE MYSTERY OF SOUND (TMS)
27 April, 2017. Seminar material 3
THEME:
UNDERSTANDING MUSIC
TOPIC:
UNDERSTANDING MUSIC
INSTRUCTOR:
KINGSLEY OKUAKAGI
Whosoever
understands music should be able to move his audience with his music.
The
knowledge of Music theory does not make you a musician, only a music professor.
Music theory is simply for the communication and storage of musical compositions.
Love for
music and the theoretical knowledge of it aren't enough. Music should be done
by those gifted to do it.
It's secular
music, not circular, lol.
From a
single standpoint you cannot tell what good music is. To make good music you
have to answer the following questions: by who, for whom, where, why, when
Debate: What
is more important in a song? The sound of the music or the message?
Music is
like visual art. No matter the meaning of a painting if it isn't beautiful
nobody will buy it.
The children
of the world are indeed wise. They use pleasant sounds to entice their
audience. We sit back and condemn them for having no message yet they keep on
taking the market. I'm not saying that we should drop the message. I'm just
saying we should pay much attention to sound, even as we drop the message.
There are
many songs we sing which don't have message, like chants and war cries, yet
these songs move us a lot and stir up awesome atmospheres in our worship
meetings. These songs derive their power by saving us the trouble of
remembering lyrics or connecting with a foreign language in the lyrics.
Good music
sounds pleasant even in the ears of foreigners.
Phonoaestetics
Phonaesthetics (from
the Greek: φωνή phōnē, "voice-sound"; and αἰσθητική aisthētikē,
"aesthetics") is a branch of phoneticsconcerned with "the
possible connection between sound sequences and meaning", according to
Raymond Hickey.[1] Linguist David
Crystal defines phonaesthetics as "a term sometimes used in
linguistics to refer to the study of the aesthetic properties of
sound".[2] According to Crystal:
Examples
include the implication of smallness in the close vowels of such words
as teeny weeny, and the unpleasant associations of the consonant
cluster sl- in such words as slime, slug,
and slush.[3]
All hymns in
our hymnals take advantage of phonoaestetics
All nursery
rhymes also.
LIFE
Only a body
with energy produces sounds. e.g, objects on
Objects in
motion
Objects in a
changing magnetic field
Objects
subjected under electricity
Objects
blown by the wind. Sound contains energy therefore sounds can cause change
Music is
energy coordinated to cause a desired change in the listener's life.
Only a body
with energy produces sounds therefore only those who have LIFE can make music.
The Bible says everything that has breath praise the Lord. There's a dimension
of music that the ordinary mind cannot make. Only a mind with spiritual energy
(the life of God)
Apart from
timbre, pitch, length there’s a fourth quality of musical notes. That's spirit.
Whether secular or gospel every singer sings with a kind of spirit.
THE MYSTERY OF SOUND
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