{"id":221,"date":"2019-02-02T00:06:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T00:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graceamazingly.wordpress.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2019-02-02T00:06:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T00:06:41","slug":"seeing-and-hearing-the-music-you-play-without-playing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/2019\/02\/02\/seeing-and-hearing-the-music-you-play-without-playing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing and hearing the music you play without playing it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We can hear the melody of a song we are familiar with, sort\nof \u2018in our head\u2019. We might sing along to it. And for musicians who are familiar\nwith the written music, we can even \u2018see\u2019 the music score as we playback the\nmelody in our head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We don\u2019t only experience the melody of a song, it is the\nwhole song \u2013 harmonic, rhythm as well as the melody. The melody is one part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without knowing it, we do also hear the harmony of the\nparticular song, the way the harmony sounds at that particular point for that\nparticular song. For example, can you recall, and do you hear or feel the\nharmony \/ chords of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Start of chorus <em><strong>This is our God, the Servant King<\/strong><\/em>, from <em>From Heaven You Came<\/em> <em>(The Servant King)<\/em> <\/li><li>First line <em><strong>Be Thou my Vision O Lord of my Heart<\/strong><\/em>.<\/li><li>Start of chorus <em><strong>Shout to the Lord, all the Earth<\/strong><\/em>, From <em>My Jesus My Saviour<\/em>,<\/li><li>First line <em><strong>Joy to the World! The Lord is Come.<\/strong><\/em><\/li><li><em><strong>Feed me till I want no more<\/strong><\/em>, in second last line, 1<sup>st<\/sup> verse of <em>Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah<\/em> , where the tenor echoes \u201cwant no more\u201d with rising notes almost like trombones in celebration.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The point is, I believe many of us hear the harmony in our\nhead more than we acknowledge. What we \u2018hear\u2019 might not be close to what is\n\u2018original\u2019 (in CD or video, as your church musicians play it), but it is not\ntoo far off. The more familiar you are with the song, the closer your audio and\nvisual re-enactment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a good point to make. We should make full use of how\nwe practice music \u2018in our heads\u2019 when we are away from our musical instruments.\nFor musicians, this is a part of our meditation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can hear the melody of a song we are familiar with, sort of \u2018in our head\u2019. We might sing along to it. And for musicians who are familiar with the written music, we can even \u2018see\u2019 the music score as we playback the melody in our head. We don\u2019t only experience the melody of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-worship","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}