By Ingrid Schlueter
Hymns in many churches were long ago replaced with "love songs" to Jesus ripped right off the pop charts, both Christian and secular. How many churches have featured the pop song, "The Prayer", made famous by singers like Celine Dion, Josh Groban and Charlotte Church, etc.? (Read the lyrics here.)
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/a/andrea+bocelli/the+prayer+la+preghiera_20007814.html
One church we visited recently after moving back to Wisconsin featured Bette Midler's, "Wind Beneath My Wings" on Sunday morning in the worship service. ( We got up and walked out.)
The author of this article (http://www.the-highway.com/Music_Prelude.html)is dead on. Leonard Payton writes:
When a music's chief trait is how it feels--as is the case with pop music--it operates much the same as recreational drugs. If you could watch different kinds of folk or western art music on an oscilloscope, you would notice different parts of the hearing range having low or high amplitude with much variation. Not so with pop. It looks more like a tidal wave On one end, the bass guitar shows high peaks of amplitude. At the other, the pink noise (a broad random frequency band) of the cymbals, modified guitar timbres, and androgenous voices, overload that portion of the human hearing where consonants reside. Of course, consonants are indispensable to verbal understanding. Needless to say, digital synthesizers have only fueled the condition. Like recreational drugs, there comes a point where the present diet is not enough, and the technology can increase the increments seemingly limitlessly. That is why we can sometimes hear a car's hi-fi system long before we hear its engine. It is why we can often hear the head set even when it is not over our own ears!
No comments:
Post a Comment