The Sacred Western Christian Music Examples of the Model in Western Christian Music Liturgical Music Choral Anthems Hymnody Instrumental Acknowledgements and References Christian faith is a holy narrative with a beginning, middle, and end bound into a meaningful whole. Who Is, the Holy Trinity. God loved our fragile planet so much in spite of its fallen condition that He gave Jesus His only begotten Son for our salvation. The plot is musical. The graphic arts have rhythmic and harmonic architectural characteristics.
Nature also orders the lives of other species through instinctive rhythms and harmonies.
The language of birds is music without words. And a young man tells me the tone of his girl friend's voice on the telephone always communicates more than what she actually says. According to some physicists, the core of physical reality itself might be musical. Brian Greene writes that Music has long since provided the metaphors of choice for those puzzling over questions of cosmic concern. With the discovery of superstring theory, musical metaphors take on a startling reality, for the theory suggests that the microscopic landscape is suffused with tiny strings whose vibrational patterns orchestrate the evolution of the cosmos.