Thursday, November 30, 2006

Spirituality in Music

Even more so than dance, music is part of many religious rituals. There has also been a strong connection between classical music and spirituality. Much classical music was actually written for the church.

Music with a very strong and repetitive beat is used in animistic and shamanistic societies to help induce trance like states.

Music does not, however, need to have religious inspiration in order to be spiritual. The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote much music that is considered spiritual in nature despite being somewhere between Atheism and Christian Agnosticism in his own beliefs.

Modern dance music is also used both with and without drugs in order to induce trance like states, and in this respect is similar to shamanistic rituals.

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