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Christian Praise & Worship Music
Praise & Worship Music
You live in a body. You function in your mind. You live in your spirit. Crush a man's spirit and no matter how healthy he is physically, he can decline to the point of death. Any doctor can tell you a story of someone who was healthy enough to live, but just gave up. There are many ways to stimulate the physical body. There are many ways to stimulate the mind - the mental part of mankind. Even so there are many ways to stimulate the spirit. One of the best is Praise and Worship Music.
Worship (when used as a noun) is generally defined as ‘paying reverence, honor, or homage,’ traditionally to a divine being in a religious setting; however, less conventional applications often include commentary on those who lavish praise upon pop stars, tout the benefits of organically grown produce, revere their political leaders, or display a fanatical devotion to corporations who produce powerful laptop computers. These unconventional examples are accurate enough by the broadest and general definition, but the unifying thread is the concept of intentionally dedicating a portion of time to focus upon and revere a beloved person, object, or subject. With this theme in mind, for the sake of this article, the emphasis will be placed on the spiritual connotation; specifically, the act of worship as experienced in a corporate church setting.
The most commonly referenced term for worship in the Bible is drawn from the Hebrew word ‘Abad’ which translates as ‘to abide’. This specific terminology implies the act of bringing people into an atmosphere where God can be experienced tangibly. While there are many methods employed individually and corporately to achieve this goal, in the modern church, the most frequently encountered - and arguably the most effective - is music.
Music in the Bible
The variety of worship encountered in today’s Christian church has its most obvious roots in the Biblical book of Psalms, a collection of literally hundreds of poems, lyrics, and artistic petitions penned by David, the king of Israel, which extolled the greatness of God, related his personal spiritual experiences, and even aired his grievances with the Almighty. These writings were relevant, real-time reflections of how David perceived God and His relationship to the people of the nation of Israel in this time period. Many of these works contain annotations relating to tempo, volume, intensity, and often call for specific instrumentation. The most recognizable of these instructions is the frequent use of ‘selah’, which refers to a dramatic pause or accent in a musical composition. Other passages are also prefaced by the phrase “To The Chief Musician” with instrumental specifications such as “with flutes” or “on stringed instruments” or reference other compositions by which the Psalm should be accompanied, such as “to the tune of ‘The Deer of the Dawn.’” David extended invitations to the most skilled musicians of
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Copyright (c) 2010 Robert Hinchliffe
The history of music in Christian worship is a substantial one which can trace its origins all the way back to pre-Christian times in the Old Testament. In those very early days we read of the Jewish people singing, playing instrumental music and even dancing. Such activity was widely used as a means of expressing faith. Music played an important role in many acts of celebration and worship. It was into that society that Jesus was born.
Over the two thousand years since Christ's life the use of music in Christian worship has gone through many phases and many musical idioms. It is really over the second of those two thousand years that church music, as we know it today, has developed.
One of the most important events in the whole of the world of music came about through the work of a Benedictine monk, Guido of Arrezzo who lived from about 995 to 1050. He didn't actually 'invent' staff notation but he perfected it, completing the evolution of the earlier neumes into plainsong script, which was the forerunner of what we know today as 'tonic-solfa'. All music had previously been passed down by aural tradition so the facility to write down music for others to read and perform was a massive step forward. Almost all musical expression since that time has come as a direct result of that development.
From that time on, composers were able to create substantial works for use in worship. This early church music was written to form the framework of an act of worship. The music was performed primarily by professional musicians attached to the church and was not for congregation participation. Composers did eventually begin to incorporate chorales (hymns) into the liturgy which gave the congregation the opportunity to join in at certain points in the service.
Many of the greatest composers over the centuries have added their voices to the ever growing repertoire of great church music. Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven and many others have given us masterpieces adding to the wealth of music in Christian worship. We tend to know many of these works today through concert performances, forgetting that many were originally created as liturgical pieces for use in church services.
At times of spiritual revival (the Protestant Reformation, the missions of Moody & Sankey, the evangelical energy which led to the founding of Methodism and the Salvation Army, etc.) there was a burst of hymn writing surrounding these events. These highly creative times in church music led to the appearance of many of the greatest and most popular congregational hymns of all. The hymns from these eras of church history have stood the test of time and are still to be heard today in even the most contemporary of worship situations.
Over the last 50 years worship music has gone through a whole new phase of development. Since the early 1960's composers of church music have gained much inspiration from
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