Music reflects the Holy Spirit via the similarities of hearing, timeliness, omniscience, causelessness, and mysteriousness, but there are more pressing comparisons, too, which focus on the expressive abilities of music. Music and Metaphor Though music teachers often like to compare music to a language, there are important differences. For example, by means of conventional rules, we agree that, say, the symbol giraffe is associated with that long-necked tawny animal. But we have no such rules for a specific tone, chord, or melody. A G-major chord doesn t force us to think of a ship or a mountain the way the words ship and mountain do.
Music can t make such specific connections.
In this sense, music is very unlike language. Music is not a strict code that can make us think of particular objects. Nonetheless, music can still express many things joy, tragedy, triumph, fear, evil, and goodness. Some have noted that it does so the way a voice can express fear or happiness regardless of the words. You could still recognize much by the tone and pace of their voice whether they re angry, pleased, relaxed, humored, or bereaved.