THE MYSTERY OF SOUND (TMS)

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 s...

THE MYSTERY OF SOUND (TMS) 20 April, 2017. Seminar material 3 THEME: UNDERSTANDING MUSIC TOPIC: ORIGIN OF MUSIC INSTRUCTOR: BENJAMIN ELIZABETH Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, even the gift of prophecy reveals only a part of the whole picture - 1 Corinth 13:9.   Origin is the point or place from where something begins or is created. Music has no all inclusive definition because it is what you understand it to be. However, for the purpose of this write up, music as defined by Oxford dictionary is sounds that are arranged in a way that is pleasant or exciting to listen to . It further defines sound to be continuous rapid movement called vibration that travel through air or water and can be heard when they reach a person's or an animal's ear.     Theories have been developed by men to explain the origin or evolution of music. Chief amongst them are the adaptationist theory which proposes that music is a product of natural selection whic...

THE MYSTERY OF SOUND (TMS)   13th April, 2017 TMS APRIL 2017 SEMINAR MATERIAL 2 THEME : UNDERSTANDING MUSIC TOPIC : THE IMPORTANCE OF MUSIC INSTRUCTOR : JANET JATAU “ ...Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ... ” (Eph. 5:19-20).       An anointed spiritual song has a way of surfacing in our spirits when we need it most. Music is such a big part of worship and it is so important to familiarize ourselves with good Gospel songs, along with the great old hymns of the church, because they bring comfort and restore hope and joy, causing us to sing and make melody in our hearts to the Lord! "....Serve The Lord with gladness: come before His presence with singing...." (Ps 100:2).    Music is so important to God that it is required to enter into Go...