M. Christopher Boyer 5/16/2010 1 This is one of those wonderful and beloved old stories that many of us learned in our earliest days in Sunday School, at least in part. The image of Paul and Silas, bravely and joyfully singing hymns while chained in a dreadful dungeon, awaiting who knows what kind of awful fate, is one that has inspired artists and songwriters over the ages. You can’t for examp...

Music affects us all. We sing with it and dance to it. We accompany our most important rituals with music. We sing hymns to our Gods and pen anthems for our nations. There is no culture in the history of mankind that has not had music. Science has always tried to explain music, to tell us why and how it affects us so. Because music's influence is so subjective and the brain is so poorly underst...

The article analyzes the problem of working with sacred choral works in classes an educational choir. role religious and spiritual culture art is covered. Domestic national values priorities current conditions are outlined. importance music repertoire student choir also substantiated; system Christian based on Holy Scriptures, conciliar experience Church singled out. norms phonetics hymns Slavo...

The origin of Indian Music is said to be rooted in the ‘Vedas’. As, Sound which pervades whole universe ‘Nadabrahma’, are considered as divine. It that musician has cultivate an attitude self-abandonment, order fuse with divine power, God Brahma who author four ‘Vedas’, ‘SamaVeda’ was chanted definite musical patterns. Vedic hymns were sung plain melody, using only three notes. present article ...