![]() ![]() Berg refers is “From Heaven Above to Earth I Come”. Good works cannot avert our doom, they help and save us never.įaith looks to Jesus Christ alone, who did for all the world atone He is our one Redeemer. Salvation unto us has come, by God’s free grace and favor (repeat sign) You see this even in 19th and early 20th-century hymnals: the music for the first line ends with a repeat sign, and then the second verse of the first stanza is written in. Today we simply call these “repeat signs”. The reason “bars” were used for notating this form was used to save ink & paper. Hence, many chorales are written in this way. He thought that the repetition of the music of the first phrase would help in learning, and then the B phrase would give the balance of variety. Yes, believe it or not, some wacky American Lutherans saw Luther’s reference to “barred music” in German and changed the repeat sign into a pub! Why did Luther write positively about “bar(red) music”? Because it describes the musical form A A B. *The musical notation was simply a repeat sign, known in Luther’s day as a “bar”. Luther called Dionysian music “carnal” and he wrote his music to wean people away from the love ballads of his day. Christian Contemporary Music, a bad clone of popular music, is clearly Dionysian. In the second, the music is in service to the text. In the first type, the music dominates the text. The second, while not denying the emotional impact of music, maintains control and gives room for the intellectual processing of the truth of the text. It is self-gratifying and clearly anthropocentric. The first is emotive and turns one inward. ![]() The relatively new academic discipline called Sentics has demonstrated that music can independently generate two very different reactions and emotions, termed Dionysian and Apollonian. Luther did wed one sacred text to a popular tune**but later regretted this dalliance with love ballads. The term bar refers to the type of staff notation used in medieval musical composing*. Truth: Luther did not use bar songs but rather his own creations and the musical heritage of the church catholic. ![]() (Note: One of our esteemed editors recently visited the web site of a WELS congregation where the church’s CCM group justified its existence based on the “fact” that Luther used bar songs.) Ergo it’s permissible, even advantageous, to use popular forms of music in the church today. Myth: Luther used bar songs in his hymnody. Peter Berg, who posted this on the old “ Motley Magpie ” site a few years ago: Ron, here’s a very good answer to your question from Rev. On that same string a reply came in, responded with the following helpful answer that puts this myth to rest once and for all. Will you explain for me the myth or the history about Luther using bar tunes for hymnody. Editor’s Note: Over on another string Ron Beck asked a great question about Luther and his musical reforms (comment #79). ![]()
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