My evangelical brother and / or sister-in-law (I don't know which) play the most bland Christian music possible. I have to endure hearing it through the walls if we are both visiting the parents.
I've figured that music can be understood as finding your way back to consonance so the tune resolves itself. You can particularly see this with Irish folk music where an instrument will start off on a dissonant note and then widdle it's way back to the root note.
But their Christian music tries to spend as little time as possible away from anything vaguely dissonant, but it has to in order for there to be a tune and not just a single note being played continuously like 'Ommmm...'. So it has long sweeping root notes occasionally bravely playing a 4th or 5th note which won't sound too jarring before trying to resolve the melody as soon as possible.
I'm pretty damned sure this reflects the theist need for order where they will believe in utter nonsense because they can't face up to the idea of the universe being chaotic, uncertain and unknown where things happen by accident.
I've figured that music can be understood as finding your way back to consonance so the tune resolves itself. You can particularly see this with Irish folk music where an instrument will start off on a dissonant note and then widdle it's way back to the root note.
But their Christian music tries to spend as little time as possible away from anything vaguely dissonant, but it has to in order for there to be a tune and not just a single note being played continuously like 'Ommmm...'. So it has long sweeping root notes occasionally bravely playing a 4th or 5th note which won't sound too jarring before trying to resolve the melody as soon as possible.
I'm pretty damned sure this reflects the theist need for order where they will believe in utter nonsense because they can't face up to the idea of the universe being chaotic, uncertain and unknown where things happen by accident.
