 Blog | Vocal or instrumental sounds possessing a degree of melody, harmony and rhythm | | |
Melody - A pleasing succession or arrangement of sounds.
Harmony - A combination of sounds considered pleasing to the ear
Rhythm - The pattern of musical movement through time
Music is sounds combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.
- The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
Like all music, the figured bass should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the recreation of the soul; where this is not kept in mind there is no true music, but only an infernal clamour and ranting.
I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- music is God`s gift to man, the only art of heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to heaven.
- Walter Savage Landor
- Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
- Martin Luther
- music is given of God to further his purposes. Sweet melodies mellow the souls of men and help prepare them for the gospel. After men receive the truth, songs of praise to deity help to sanctify and cleanse their souls.
- Elder Bruce R. McConkie
- music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.
- C. S. Lewis
- If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. |
Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. |
Rap is dangerous music
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