This deserves more thinking about. Definitely. And it's Matt Redman talking, so even more interesting.
YouTube - Worship songs aren't for the blokes. Matt Redman comments.
02 April 2008
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I've been watching the TV series 'Foundation'. I read the books about 50 years ago (I know!) but scarcely now remember anything...
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I've just had an article published on emergingchurch.info. It's an adaptation of some of my book, but I thought I'd share it and...
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Spot on - it's back to context and culture. (And I'm not an especially "blokey" bloke...) I'm not sure that "old" hymns are any more of an answer, but there are all sorts of issues wrapped up in this, even something about the musical pitch of contemporary chorus writing. (I personally find I either have to sing in harmonies or uncomfortably low, for example). Isn't there some (apocryphal?) evidence relating the pitch of singing with endorphin release? It's certainly something I've heard on several ocassions...
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