Featured What Do You Believe about Instrumental Music?

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord,
all the earth:
make a loud noise,
and rejoice,
and sing praise.
Psalm 98:4

 

God certainly created sound, both calming and terrifying. I think sound that pleases His loved ones, pleases Him.

Some mornings a bird will perch on our chimney and sing away. I sit and listen and enjoy. The sound of a brook is pleasing.
And even the rhythm of the rain on our roof.

On the other hand, I think much of the music of today is like a clanking gong.

 

If in this verse

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord,
all the earth:
make a loud noise,
and rejoice,
and sing praise.
Psalm 98:4

each item is separate,

that is,

joyful noise

all the earth

loud noise

rejoicing

sing praise

then any instrumental played with skill and enthusiasm (joyful noise)
might qualify. Like the JonC suggestion of "One of These Days", or classical music.

Or Van's "Some mornings a bird will perch on our chimney and sing away. I sit and listen and enjoy. The sound of a brook is pleasing.
And even the rhythm of the rain on our roof.", would be for (all the earth).

But, if all the items are interlinked and cannot be divided noise, earth, loud, rejoicing, sing praise.

Wouldn't there have to singing with praise (to God) always included?
Or perhaps each one is a type of praise to God.

 

Music evokes emotion. It is neither moral nor immoral in its sound. What creates the morality or immorality of a song is the lyrics or the dance choreography added to the music. These additional pieces can and do corrupt the viewer/listener. It is this added audio/visual that tells us what emotion the songwriter intends us to feel. For example, if I am watching a war movie, the music is used to help convey an emotion of nervous tension and foreboding. Without the visual, I would not automatically know what I am supposed to feel.
When I attend a classical orchestra concert, the MC tells me the story of the song to help me know what the composer was trying to convey in the different movements. Without the story, I can feel the structure of the movement, but not understand what it is conveying.

And, just an aside, I like Pink Floyd's music and their instrumental work. I also like Frank Zappa's instrumental song "Apostrophe." He was a jazz fusion genius, but some of his lyrical work was disgusting to say the least.

 

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Note that

 

Indeed it is opinion. However, I notice no Bible support against my assertion in your response. Therefore we share opinion.

Nowhere do we read of God rejecting a musical instrument, an orchestration, or a style of music. Instead, we read of God encouraging the use of instruments.

 

Old school Mennonites and Amish have nothing other than human vocalization as an instrument.