(November 12, 2024 at 9:17 am)syntheticadrenaline Wrote: ...that people compose so much classical music about an imaginary God. Why not write music about the real world? It's beautiful enough.
There's music about nature I admit but I want more. I composed a choral song about a towering oak tree once and I think I also have one about winter and snow. I also have quite a few about birds.
I just sometimes find it a shame that there's no songs about what a gift the eye and optic nerve are or how spectacular it is that flight evolved in so many species - yet we have umpteen songs about God.
Gustav Holst - The Planets
Vivaldi - Four Seasons
Rimsky Korsakov - Flight of the Bumblebee
Strauss - The Blue Danube
And for good pagan fun we have:
Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries
Grieg - In the Hall of the Mountain King
Amongst many others. I'll admit that I enjoy some of the religious music too but that's in spite of the religiosity. Also, you'll note that with the exception of a few abominations that went nowhere, there's bugger all for religious rock and roll.
