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| Author | Topic: History of Music in the Church |
Loebe Wan Kenobi
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5/30/2005 | posted: 5/30/2005 at 2:56:59 PM ET
Hi! I am a huge fan of music. All kinds. I am just trying to research. I am very interested in learning about the advancement of music in the history of the church and how the church has always continued to feed off of secular resources and music that at least in that time in history was considered contemporary and evil. Yet somehow they always continue to adopt it and then forget that they have done so and later in history continue to criticize what is currently called contemporary music. Don't get me wrong, I'm a Christian and I love all music. I just want historically accurate facts to throw back in the faces of people who say that contemporary Christian music is evil. After all "Away in a Manger" was originally a bar song. So if anyone has any incite or knows of another website or could just point me in a direction I'd appreciate it.
May the Force be with you!
|  Pete
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3/20/2005 | posted: 5/30/2005 at 6:53:56 PM ET
Plainsong was not a ""contemporary"' medium by any means, if you are using the term to describe music popular with the general population, nor was the Latin Mass. It was designed to promote the division of Clergy and Lay members, not to blend them.
As for the Church using popular music now, this is confined in the main to Evangelical rather than traditional church organisations. And why not?
Advertising has used countless pop songs to promote product, and the transposition of the pagan feast days and gods to a Christian level in the first and second centuries was a product promotion, of sorts.
Even the word "'testament"comes from the Roman custom of cupping a hand over the testes when swearing to tell the truth.
Take me to your Lieder...
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