Major Personalities behind the Secularization of Music
Title: Major Personalities behind the Secularization of Music
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 1732 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Major Personalities behind the Secularization of Music
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 1732 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Music has been with us for a very long while. In fact, part of being human is an appreciation of the finer arts. However, music's role has remained anything but constant throughout history. Music has gone from a mathematical science to a synthesis of melody and harmony. Many wonderful pieces have been written for religious purposes. Many more have been written for the secular world. The art of music has not always been that way.
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after the church controlled it for about one thousand years. It should not be said that the church was wrong to have controlled it in the first place. A little artistic restriction that is eventually done away with is a better thing than letting all of music's past crumble away to dust. Music, and indeed all the arts, is like a living thing. They need to grow or they will become stagnate and waste away.