Music is something that is appealing to almost everyone, but does anyone know why? Wouldn't God's absence mean that sound would have to evolve? What makes a 7th chord suspenseful, a major chord happy, the tonic a resolution? Even if music could exist without God, why would it?
2006-12-19 14:27:36 · 21 answers · asked by James 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
As for why we like some sounds and not others, I can't say, but it seems that we like certain chords because there are less "beats". Beats occur when two sound waves interfere with each other. If they are the same, the match up perfectly and no beats are heard. If one wave fits well inside the wavelength of another, the sound is pleasant. If the wavelengths/frequencies are too close to each other but not the same, if they don't line up with each other, we get interference beats, which we hear as dissonance.
Why we dislike beats, I don't know.
I think it's all God's doing that makes music so wonderful.
2006-12-19 14:44:09 · answer #1 · answered by Robbie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are committing the pathetic fallacy. Music does not go shopping, fall in love, get baptized, pay taxes or die. Music is sound organized according to cultural aesthetics, not a being. Ask a Balinese listener about your 7th and major chords and you'll find out that not every culture regards these as "suspenseful" or "happy."
On the other hand, there are simple physical reasons that something like the tonic is regarded as a resolution. An excellent place to begin your exploration is http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/music/tempercn.html#c1
2006-12-19 15:49:48 · answer #2 · answered by John R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WHICH god? a million. This is a controversy from incredulity. Not figuring out how anything is defined does now not imply it are not able to be defined. two. There is proof that tune is concerning language. An out-of-situation chord triggers a facet of the mind that acknowledges proper syntax (Clarke 2001; Maess et al. 2001). Thus an appreciation of tune might have arisen, no less than in facet, as a facet-final result of the evolution of language. Another speculation is that tune arose in parallel with sociality, as a method of linking folks via such communal hobbies as dance and rhythm (Benzon 2001).
2016-09-03 17:14:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Music in no way exists becaus of God, thats ridiculous. You are saying that man could never make anything beautiful. Thats stupid, and music does evolve all the time. Why do you think there are genres of music... IT CHANGES! And not only that it trancends genres to become new genres... EVOLUTION! The existence of god has no bearing on whether music would or would not exist. You are trying to prve the existence of God with beauty and that is a very weak arguement there are many ways to disprove your arguement and I have just presented one.
2006-12-19 16:19:31 · answer #4 · answered by Satan 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Music is sound/noise...harmonious or not. The strumming of a guitar, the beat of a drum, the crash of a wave, the falling of leaves, etc. are all sounds and/or music to ones ear...music wouldn't/doesn't evolve...sound without God/is there trully a God...that's all a matter of opinion/belief.
Why would music exsist without God, you wonder? It shouldn't if there isn't anyone around to hear it!
2006-12-19 17:33:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apples and oranges. Music is the product of sounds in nature. God is the product of human imagination. Why would God want to exist without music? There goes the heavenly choir.
2006-12-19 14:31:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
That's the way people thought in cave era -- they would see lightning and say -- why should there be fire in the sky? Only GOD can make one!
Of course later we discovered perfectly reasonable scientific reason for lightning.
Your argument is basically a "caveman" logic argument. I can't explain why 7th chord is suspenseful (or why there is fire in a sky) --> it must be GOD.
2006-12-19 19:46:13 · answer #7 · answered by hq3 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
U r right. Music could not exit without GOD.
Daily face ing all those TENSIONS of the entire infinite universe GOD too needs some relaxations
....so that's where MUSICs comes in.....actually....u know.....in GOD's early days (i.e. when we use to catch up Hobbies and get addicted to it) there was no TVs, no Internets, no YAHOO answers etc etc.........
........So MUSIC was the only way for him.......
.....and thus my son GOD created MUSIC..........................
2006-12-19 15:48:40 · answer #8 · answered by naafraat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may have just proven God's existence.
Music, of course!
It was right there in front of us all along and somehow we missed it!
I forget, on which day did God create the 'chord'?
2006-12-19 16:26:05 · answer #9 · answered by curious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God and Music? Let's see. If a tree falls in the woods and noone is around to see it, does it make a noise? who know's and why. If you like it, listen to it. Does GOD exsist? If you believe he does than he does. If he doesn't than it is just another accomplishment of man.
2006-12-19 14:39:02 · answer #10 · answered by tazman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋