What Do Fundy Musicians Do When Confronted with Music Theory?

[stopbush]

Do they believe that the notes C - E - G form a C Major triad, or do they think something else? What happens when they modulate from one key to another? Did they evolve into a new tonality, or did they spontaneously create a new tonality? Or neither? Should music schools still teach traditional music theory, or should they teach that music developed through some kind of divine intervention, ie: musical creationism? And if it was through intelligent design, how does one explain Clay Aiken? And doesn't the existence of Clay Aiken's career sort of prove that there isn't a god?

After all, the fundamental principles that underline Western music are only a *theory,* don't you know?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. Dodo music

CCC=Contemporary Christian Crap.

The fundies will probably revert to outlawing tritones as demonic intervals.

[RevCheesehead]

14. Historically, they did that (outlaw tritones)

"diabolus in musica" (the devil in music)...the fundies of their day. You can't help but wonder if they also had their own "Church Lady" as well!

[DBoon]

2. Fundie linguists

have to deal with speaking in tongues as the original divine language, and have to explain the divergence in language families as due to post-flood dispersion.

[BlueJazz]

3. You really want to hear something very strange?

I've known church people in the south that didn't like minor Chords or diminished chords. One woman (choir singer) told me that those types of chords are "Racy".

When one Preacher, who I was talking to, found out that I was a Jazz Musician, he told me to my face "You're going straight to hell if you keep playing that Satan music"

You may think I'm puttin' you on...I'm not.

[wtmusic]

4. He's right...first it's jazz, then booze, then heroin,

then 13th chords :P

[stopbush]

6. You left out the sex between booze and heroin...

[wtmusic]

8. nah sex is ok, as long as it's between married adults

and they aren't using condoms or in other ways promoting 'deliberate childlessness' :eyes:

[stopbush]

11. Do the married adults need to be married to each other?

[stopbush]

5. They also fear polytonal music, even though most of their church

choirs practice polytonality on an unintentional basis every Sunday. :)

[wtmusic]

9. Krystof Pendecki was a very religious man

if they really want to be scared, they should listen to his 'Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima'.

God sometimes speaks in strange tongues.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. That is such a fantastic piece

All fundies should have to listen to it.

[stopbush]

12. Have you ever heard his Polish Requiem? Pretty nifty.

BTW - you say "was religious." Did he die? I missed it.

[wtmusic]

15. No he's still around - my bad

and no I haven't heard the Requiem. There's a lot of his music I need to check out.

Thanks for the tip :thumbsup:

[Philostopher]

16. Good one! n/t

[claudiajean]

17. OMG! You made me laugh so hard I spit coffee at my screen!

Oh, the humanity!

[Seabiscuit]

7. To a fundie, music theory must be a machiavellian left-wing conspiracy

... after all, it's only a "theory", right? LOL!

[progmom]

13. No pentatonic scales for them!

And definitely NEVER a flatted fifth! That's the devil's interval!
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