Monday, October 14, 2019
Bach's beautiful religious totality
Johann Sebastian Bach is the best composer of religious
music, his melodies, intertwined harmony, and counterpoint, using all
the keys, creates a beautiful religious totality. Bach's works can
easily join the modern world of cosmology, mathematics, and even the
polyphony of the Xs and Os of computer coding. Listening to Bach on
Sunday I thought how well his music would affirm the religious philosophy of
theological materialism and the projected Theoevolutionary Church.
But if Bach is the
archetype we need modern composer with the courage not only to write
in that polyphonic style but the nerve to try to surpass Bach.
Romantics like Chopin write beautiful music but it seems more for the
individual than the group. Jazz can be very moving too but it is usually too hedonistic. Most modern "classical" composers usually have no
religious sense and no moral grounding, they don't create “music”
they create pieces formed and written as abstract objections to
traditional music.
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