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To: calgal who wrote (2552)10/11/2006 10:47:44 AM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (1) of 10087
 
Seems to me Colson is doing what man has done for centuries: if you don't have an immediate explanation, you fall back to the equally inexplicable supernatural.

I seem to remember from my theory classes, discussions about why we find certain harmonics more pleasant than others because of their vibrations and their effect on our brains. Perhaps our response to music is as simple as the soothing of an autistic by a rocking motion.

Music has developed complexity over thousands of years from simple drum to chants to polyphony. There are even notational systems going back all the way to Mesopotamia. Perhaps music goes hand in hand with speech development which is also rhythmic and involves coding information.

Rather than God creating music (imago Dei), some men took the evolving tool- as he did painting and writing-- and used it to glorify the God he believed in.

Colson's column has the tone of a nice sermon.

Interesting article on language and music:

menc.org
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