Catholic Word of the Day: MORALITY OF MUSIC, 02-25-14

CCDictionary ^ | 02-25-14 | Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary

[Salvation]

Featured Term (selected at random:

MORALITY OF MUSIC

 

The recognized fact that music and song, apart from the words used, have the ability to arouse either noble or base feelings and emotions in the persons who hear a melody. The reason for this emotional influence seems to lie deeper than the familiar association of ideas with certain music or song. It involves something inherent in all musical rhythm to evoke a human response that is either morally elevating or degrading, depending partly on the listener but also on what is heard.

All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.>

[Salvation]

Hopefully the music you hear is morally elevating, but I've experienced music that was not, too, so I sympathize with those of you who still experience that.

[Salvation]

Catholic Word of the Day Ping!

Korah	Patron Saint	Tridentine Theology
Chancellor	Wimple	Liturgy of the Word
Emanation	Marcionism	Discalced
Sacrament of Orders	Vestry	Reformation Dogma
Heptateuch	First Fridays	Apostlic Churches
Universal Bishop	Golden Number	Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
Immanentist Apologetics	Night of the Senses	Our Lady of Zoce
Overpopulation	Jot	Our Lady of Quinche
Nihil Sine Deo	Historical Determinism	Theologian of the Pontifical Household
Ecclesiastical Tradition	Ecclesiastical Languages	Recusants
Beatification	Zeitgeist	Relator
Final Cause	Sacraments of the Dead	Ursulines
Impeccability of Christ	Gesta	Death Wish
Vernacular in Liturgy	Antinomianism	Morality of Music

If you aren’t on this Catholic Word of the Day Ping list and would like to be, please send me a FReepmail.

[Tax-chick]

Sometimes one is just in the mood for Halestorm or Disturbed.

[AnAmericanMother]

On the one hand, there is pop music, which is certainly no longer supported by the people in the ancient sense (populus). It is aimed at the phenomenon of the masses, is industrially produced, and ultimately has to be described as a cult of the banal. “Rock”, on the other hand, is the expression of elemental passions, and at rock festivals it assumes a cultic character, a form of worship, in fact, in opposition to Christian worship. People are, so to speak, released from themselves by the experience of being part of a crowd and by the emotional shock of rhythm, noise, and special lighting effects. However, in the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe. The music of the Holy Spirit’s sober ine­briation seems to have little chance when self has become a prison, the mind is a shackle, and breaking out from both appears as a true promise of redemption that can be tasted at least for a few moments.

Pope Benedict XVI, The Spirit of the Liturgy, p 148