I would like to offer a theology of music. Music causes us to move. If you hear a great waltz, even if you can't dance, there's a part of you that wants to get up and move around the ballroom floor. If you hear the drums-beats of a march, this, too, stirs something within us that fires rage and can lead us off into war. The vibrations of sound vibrate throughout our bodies and we're affected.
Music can soften a hard heart.
It can wipe away the stress of the day. Just look at Saul, summoning David to play the lyre, to sooth his pounding, troubled brain. Music can reach down into the deepest recesses of the human soul and touch us where words fail. And music can also move us to experiences of ecstatic joy and exhilaration. Music can make our spirits soar and lift us up in unbounded revelry.