> Music is music, and that is our topic. Some of the finest music written has > been for one god or another, the particular choice doesn't change the music. > I could write a piece honoring the seventh avenue subway, and if it were a > good piece with lasting musical value it might last an eternity - and long > after both the subway and the avenue were gone. NO. Actually any great music semantically depends on religion, because it needs a system of symbols, an language of expression, even if a particular piece of music may seem to have no obvious religious connotations. There is no equality between such systems in circulation, and there is a reason why "we" have Bach and "they" don't. Golgotha has a distinctly different musical value in comparison with Times Square. So any music not rooted in Christian semantics (like MacOSX rooted in Unix) is doomed to being not quite that memorable (see Pagan, Islamic, Judaic etc., and don't hold you breath for a Ramadan oratorio). Again, it doesn't have to have overtly religious. RT
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