So they can't imagine using solemn sounds for anything but a funeral. They never think of associating joy and solemnity. So much gloriously solemn music is automatically classified as a dirge or funeral music. But Scripture says that other things, like joy and delight in the presence of God, often demand solemnity too. A more biblical sensibility discerns between the types of solemnities.
Some solemnity is joyful, some full of awe, and some is tragic.
That's not our conviction at Christ Church. But the simple fact is that the deepest theological meditations on musical theory and composition come from more mature Christian eras than our own. Modernity is simply not saturated in Christian assumptions about beauty the way the medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation periods were. But that's not just a prejudice. Some of that happens in our own day, but very little, especially in worship music.