Music Changes Over the Years
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Talented vocalist. Very!
Not a deeply educated musicologist, so the earlier eras weren't truly captured, nor were the subtle evolutions of harmonic structure clearly delineated.
Bach opened the floodgates, so to speak, with his brilliant use of the tritone.
But an accapella arrangement will tend to have a 'sameness' to the sound no matter what era it purports to be from. So the differences in each era are equalized, and the addition of rhythm is the main variance.
But this guy has a simply gorgeous voice, beautiful execution, crystal clear intonation.
Change the word "music" for "clothes" and it's the same old argument. Things change, we change in accordance to whatever era of time in which we happen to live. That is the process of life. Our music is going to reflect that, our dress is going to reflect that, our speech is going to reflect that, our tools and way of life are going to reflect that...etc.
Not a deeply educated musicologist, so the earlier eras weren't truly captured, nor were the subtle evolutions of harmonic structure clearly delineated.
Bach opened the floodgates, so to speak, with his brilliant use of the tritone.
But an accapella arrangement will tend to have a 'sameness' to the sound no matter what era it purports to be from. So the differences in each era are equalized, and the addition of rhythm is the main variance.
But this guy has a simply gorgeous voice, beautiful execution, crystal clear intonation.
Change the word "music" for "clothes" and it's the same old argument. Things change, we change in accordance to whatever era of time in which we happen to live. That is the process of life. Our music is going to reflect that, our dress is going to reflect that, our speech is going to reflect that, our tools and way of life are going to reflect that...etc.
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brainisengaged said:
He's also introduced some anachronisms. While "Be Thou My Vision" is an Irish hymn that dates back to the 6th century, it wasn't attached to the folk melody now known as "Slane" until 100 years ago. "All Creatures of Our God and King" is also a mutt: it's a poem by a 13th-century Italian monk, translated into English in the 20th century and set to a 17th-century German melody.
"A Mighty Fortress," on the other hand, is pure Luther: he wrote both the words and the tune. That said, Luther's arrangement of Eine feiste Burg is far more syncopated than what this vocalist is using, the melody we generally sing today. (I suspect a lot of fundamentalist Baptists would find the original so rhythmic as to be practically unsingable).
(Update: I just flipped through a few of the comments on this video on YouTube. The vocalist, David Wesley, is aware that he is being anachronistic [for example, with the use of harmony for the medieval hymns], but opted to stick with his preferred harmonic style. Think of this medley as less of a demonstration of the evolution of music, and more as a survey of worship songs from the early Middle Ages to the present.)