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Started by CapeCodder, February 03, 2021, 06:41:46 PM

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I-39

Quote from: GaryV on March 02, 2021, 04:08:16 PM
My wife is playing an arrangement of "Christ the Lord is Risen Today" on the piano.

A little early for that isn't it?

Just kidding, I wish that song would be sung in church outside of Easter as well.


GaryV

Quote from: I-39 on March 02, 2021, 05:44:22 PM
Quote from: GaryV on March 02, 2021, 04:08:16 PM
My wife is playing an arrangement of "Christ the Lord is Risen Today" on the piano.

A little early for that isn't it?

Just kidding, I wish that song would be sung in church outside of Easter as well.

She's the music director.  She was researching pieces in case we get to go back to in-person worship with full music.

kphoger

Quote from: GaryV on March 02, 2021, 04:08:16 PM
My wife is playing an arrangement of "Christ the Lord is Risen Today" on the piano.

It's not the easiest to play, as I recall.  At least if you're going by typical organ sheet music.  A wonderful hymn, though!
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I-39

Quote from: kphoger on March 02, 2021, 08:23:59 PM
Quote from: GaryV on March 02, 2021, 04:08:16 PM
My wife is playing an arrangement of "Christ the Lord is Risen Today" on the piano.

It's not the easiest to play, as I recall.  At least if you're going by typical organ sheet music.  A wonderful hymn, though!

Anything on the organ is super complicated. Then again, haven't most churches by now ditched the organ unless they are super traditional?

kurumi

Quote from: GaryV on March 02, 2021, 04:08:16 PM
My wife is playing an arrangement of "Christ the Lord is Risen Today" on the piano.


You might like this proggy arrangement in 5/4 by Robert A. Hobby (I don't know the organist):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARfZc1Nckb4
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Quote from: I-39 on March 02, 2021, 08:51:33 PM
Quote from: kphoger on March 02, 2021, 08:23:59 PM
Quote from: GaryV on March 02, 2021, 04:08:16 PM
My wife is playing an arrangement of "Christ the Lord is Risen Today" on the piano.

It's not the easiest to play, as I recall.  At least if you're going by typical organ sheet music.  A wonderful hymn, though!

Anything on the organ is super complicated. Then again, haven't most churches by now ditched the organ unless they are super traditional?

A decent number in my area have them. Of course, the area I live in was one of the earliest places settled in the US, specifically the 1640s.
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I-39

Quote from: 1 on March 02, 2021, 08:58:16 PM
Quote from: I-39 on March 02, 2021, 08:51:33 PM
Quote from: kphoger on March 02, 2021, 08:23:59 PM
Quote from: GaryV on March 02, 2021, 04:08:16 PM
My wife is playing an arrangement of "Christ the Lord is Risen Today" on the piano.

It's not the easiest to play, as I recall.  At least if you're going by typical organ sheet music.  A wonderful hymn, though!

Anything on the organ is super complicated. Then again, haven't most churches by now ditched the organ unless they are super traditional?

A decent number in my area have them. Of course, the area I live in was one of the earliest places settled in the US, specifically the 1640s.

I could see more traditional mainline churches having them, but a lot of newer and nondenominational churches have ditched anything "traditional"  to be more seeker friendly.

Rothman

Quote from: I-39 on March 02, 2021, 09:06:15 PM
Quote from: 1 on March 02, 2021, 08:58:16 PM
Quote from: I-39 on March 02, 2021, 08:51:33 PM
Quote from: kphoger on March 02, 2021, 08:23:59 PM
Quote from: GaryV on March 02, 2021, 04:08:16 PM
My wife is playing an arrangement of "Christ the Lord is Risen Today" on the piano.

It's not the easiest to play, as I recall.  At least if you're going by typical organ sheet music.  A wonderful hymn, though!

Anything on the organ is super complicated. Then again, haven't most churches by now ditched the organ unless they are super traditional?

A decent number in my area have them. Of course, the area I live in was one of the earliest places settled in the US, specifically the 1640s.

I could see more traditional mainline churches having them, but a lot of newer and nondenominational churches have ditched anything "traditional"  to be more seeker friendly.
Mormons still use organs.  Electric ones.
Please note: All comments here represent my own personal opinion and do not reflect the official position(s) of NYSDOT.

kphoger

Quote from: I-39 on March 02, 2021, 09:06:15 PM
I could see more traditional mainline churches having them, but a lot of newer and nondenominational churches have ditched anything "traditional"  to be more seeker friendly.

Our church no longer uses the organ, but that change happened before we made the switch from orchestra & choir to guitar-led band.  When our organist left the church, there was no one in the congregation to replace her.
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Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

kphoger

Quote from: I-39 on March 02, 2021, 08:51:33 PM

Quote from: kphoger on March 02, 2021, 08:23:59 PM

Quote from: GaryV on March 02, 2021, 04:08:16 PM
My wife is playing an arrangement of "Christ the Lord is Risen Today" on the piano.

It's not the easiest to play, as I recall.  At least if you're going by typical organ sheet music.  A wonderful hymn, though!

Anything on the organ is super complicated. Then again, haven't most churches by now ditched the organ unless they are super traditional?

I guess I should have said "typical hymnal arrangement".
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Male pronouns, please.

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I-39

Quote from: kphoger on March 02, 2021, 10:00:40 PM
Quote from: I-39 on March 02, 2021, 09:06:15 PM
I could see more traditional mainline churches having them, but a lot of newer and nondenominational churches have ditched anything "traditional"  to be more seeker friendly.

Our church no longer uses the organ, but that change happened before we made the switch from orchestra & choir to guitar-led band.  When our organist left the church, there was no one in the congregation to replace her.

But still, in general, a lot of churches these days feel that a contemporary model is necessary, and that simply isn't true.

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Quote from: kphoger on February 04, 2021, 09:12:55 AM
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Quote from: I-39 on March 02, 2021, 10:54:02 PM

Quote from: kphoger on March 02, 2021, 10:00:40 PM

Quote from: I-39 on March 02, 2021, 09:06:15 PM
I could see more traditional mainline churches having them, but a lot of newer and nondenominational churches have ditched anything "traditional"  to be more seeker friendly.

Our church no longer uses the organ, but that change happened before we made the switch from orchestra & choir to guitar-led band.  When our organist left the church, there was no one in the congregation to replace her.

But still, in general, a lot of churches these days feel that a contemporary model is necessary, and that simply isn't true.

"Necessary" is a really squirrely word.  The fact that plenty of churches have traditional music and orchestration doesn't negate the fact that plenty of people want nothing more to do with that music and are, in fact, turned off by it.  It is not culturally a part of who they are.

For the record, I've sung in church choirs and played in church orchestras.  I've arranged hymns for choir and still do on occasion.  And I also currently play drums in a guitar-led band in church every Sunday.  I have a deep appreciation for traditional Christian music and hymnody, and I worry that we've thrown the baby out with the bathwater during the traditional-to-contemporary music shift.  But I also understand that music is a very subjective thing that touches us on an emotional level.  If worshippers are emotionally disengaged from the music used in their worship, then I believe that's an issue to be addressed.  No, I don't believe that a person's religious life is all about emotion, but music specifically has a large emotional aspect that should not be ignored.

I also understand that what we consider "traditional music" was at one time "contemporary music"–centuries ago in Europe.  I personally know how to read Gregorian chant notation and enjoy hearing a good schola cantorum, but it would be silly to expect all churches everywhere to sing a cappella in parallel fifths in medieval Latin.  I think it's similarly silly to expect all churches everywhere to sing four-part organ-led translated European hymns.  A missionary in the Congo shouldn't expect Christians there to only use traditional classical Western music in worship, and we likewise shouldn't expect Christians here to do so either.

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Quote from: Rothman on March 02, 2021, 09:19:09 PM
Mormons still use organs.  Electric ones.

Naughty boy.  Isn't everyone supposed to pretend that Mormons aren't "Mormons" now?  Or is there just a widespread but unspoken consensus that it isn't worth the extra ten keystrokes?




I'm currently listening to the Herbert Grönemeyer album Bleibt Alles Anders on YouTube.  Annoyingly, it's a relatively unknown album and I can't find it as a playlist.  So, instead, I'm searching for each song track-by-track.
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Rothman

To kphoger:  Yeah, we're not supposed to say "Mormon" anymore.  I've just got to be me.

Saying I'm a member of The Church of Jesus Christ means that people could mistake me for being a member of one of the Protestant sects named "Church of Christ" or its variants.  And writing out, "I'm a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" is just...tiring. :D
Please note: All comments here represent my own personal opinion and do not reflect the official position(s) of NYSDOT.

kphoger

Quote from: Rothman on March 03, 2021, 11:50:23 AM
To kphoger:  Yeah, we're not supposed to say "Mormon" anymore.  I've just got to be me.

Saying I'm a member of The Church of Jesus Christ means that people could mistake me for being a member of one of the Protestant sects named "Church of Christ" or its variants.  And writing out, "I'm a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" is just...tiring. :D

Our landlord always says "the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints–better known as the Mormons".  I think he even has to take a breath halfway through.
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Male pronouns, please.

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I-39

Quote from: kphoger on March 03, 2021, 10:17:25 AM
"Necessary" is a really squirrely word.  The fact that plenty of churches have traditional music and orchestration doesn't negate the fact that plenty of people want nothing more to do with that music and are, in fact, turned off by it.  It is not culturally a part of who they are.

For the record, I've sung in church choirs and played in church orchestras.  I've arranged hymns for choir and still do on occasion.  And I also currently play drums in a guitar-led band in church every Sunday.  I have a deep appreciation for traditional Christian music and hymnody, and I worry that we've thrown the baby out with the bathwater during the traditional-to-contemporary music shift.  But I also understand that music is a very subjective thing that touches us on an emotional level.  If worshippers are emotionally disengaged from the music used in their worship, then I believe that's an issue to be addressed.  No, I don't believe that a person's religious life is all about emotion, but music specifically has a large emotional aspect that should not be ignored.

I also understand that what we consider "traditional music" was at one time "contemporary music"–centuries ago in Europe.  I personally know how to read Gregorian chant notation and enjoy hearing a good schola cantorum, but it would be silly to expect all churches everywhere to sing a cappella in parallel fifths in medieval Latin.  I think it's similarly silly to expect all churches everywhere to sing four-part organ-led translated European hymns.  A missionary in the Congo shouldn't expect Christians there to only use traditional classical Western music in worship, and we likewise shouldn't expect Christians here to do so either.

I think were in agreement here. Maybe I was a little too broad, to clarify, what I see happening with the ditching of traditional music for a contemporary model is happening primarily in "evangelical churches" (whether that would be Non-denominational, Baptist, etc, I get that is a broad term as well). I think we should be exposed to a wide variety of music from all the different centuries. Honestly, for me, it's not the style of music, it's more so the content of the lyrics of the song that I care about. Sadly, a lot of modern Christian music is very shallow, superficial and in some cases heretical.

But I don't think we're allowed to talk about religion on this forum so I'll have to end it here.

kphoger

Quote from: I-39 on March 03, 2021, 12:21:41 PM
Honestly, for me, it's not the style of music, it's more so the content of the lyrics of the song that I care about. Sadly, a lot of modern Christian music is very shallow, superficial and in some cases heretical.

And that's the baby I worry we've thrown out with the bathwater.

Quote from: I-39 on March 03, 2021, 12:21:41 PM
But I don't think we're allowed to talk about religion on this forum so I'll have to end it here.

Back on track, then...  I'm currently listening to the album Kick by INXS.
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GaryV

Something that has surfaced during Covid, because many churches are streaming services:

You can generally play, record and stream the old hymns, because most of the time they are now public domain.  You might have to watch whether an arrangement is legal.

But for the more recent* music, you need to be covered by a variety of licenses, with add-ons (at additional costs, of course) for streaming.  With a lot of rules to follow.

* It doesn't even need to be that all recent, since copyrights are generally good for 70 years after the life of the author/composer/etc.

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Quote from: kphoger on March 03, 2021, 10:17:25 AM
"Necessary" is a really squirrely word.

Used to drive me nuts at my last job. "[sigh] Scott, that's not necessary." "We're a casino, this whole damn industry isn't necessary!"

I wasn't terribly popular with management.
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