musical history lessons are usually about dead white guys who wrote the music for over 100 years ago. Therefore, I am surprised when a post-graduate level course in music history, music that I wandered into a debate on people.

Even more surprising was the statement made by our teachers – "Pop Music Is Dead". Listening to popular music on the radio more often than classic. Most of my listening is done inthe car and my commute is short, I can not listen to only half of a concert piano in my work.

Pop seems to me alive. Despite the problem of illegal downloads, artists are still out there making new recordings. Technology has opened the door to an even wider audience, so that independent musicians the opportunity to compete without the need for contracts with record companies. How could he say that pop music was dead?

Popsays the professor is dead because he classicized. His theory is that pop music was designed to have a short-lived flow. The songs are popular for a while, 'and then be replaced by new, popular songs. His argument is that since have become folk classics, "it defeats the whole philosophy of the kind. So the whole idea of" popular "is like a classification of music is dead

Not entirely agree with him but I understand his position. The directChoirs in a public school and tackle the problem of traditional songs, in my box of concerts. And 'tradition, always with the end Hallelujah Chorus, it is tradition, a candlelight procession to a particular arrangement of Silent Night is not the tradition to the same set of songs to be sung every year in high school and beginning. If you create multiple traditions, I rolled my lesson plans.

Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof would tell us that our traditions are, what our anchor;They help us a solid basis for a changing world. I do not want to drop the tradition of our music, I just want to make sure it does not create many of them there is great flexibility in learning new music left.

Now we come to the hymn, the music of Guns loved and respected, is the directory from which we choose to worship songs every Sunday. Use of classicized church hymnal? Wecarved a select group of "classic" rock anthems?

This was certainly the aim in the early Church. A study of music history teaches us that the notation was the first church developed as a means of standardization to sing Gregorian chant. The mass was not said to vary, gave a formula that took the music to be consistent as well. Print a hymn to the guarantee has always been the same offense. Orthodoxy was officially established on the press.

Icertainly not a problem with the orthodoxy. My problem is with the press. The newspapers have ceased because the press can not keep pace with the Internet. It 'now possible, something that is available immediately worldwide at a fraction of the cost required to publish a unique edition printed by a local newspaper. Changes like this can not but influence the way the church does things.

The Methodist denomination is not quite sure how to manage theseProblem. The printed songbook is old and is due for replacement – but nobody knows how. Some churches use the exclusive place hymnal every Sunday, some texts of the project. Some sing songs, some singing a combination of hymns and modern praise & worship choruses. There are several settings that do not fit any size.

We publish a larger, robust and expensive anthem? We publish a cheaper version being replacedOften, updates more easily? If you set the whole thing online, so we can update for now? It will be a bit 'before an agreement on this issue.

My opinion is that change for the better is always welcome. Our church before the CCLI website signed "service" Song Select a few years and now the music has opened my eyes to the advantages of Web-based printing. Virtually every song, worship, Praise Chorus never in any key you want is available now publishedupon request. No longer to get to the realization by hand or with eyes Square Pegs fit in round holes. No complex modulation to remote keys. He made my life much easier and I can never return to the old way of doing things.

Musicnotes.com is a similar service that has changed everything in terms of more secular. If a student wants to sing a popular song for a wedding, I can choose from various packages and have kept in perfect key for your vocal range. Nottime to pay the shipping costs and – you pay for, download and print immediately. Life is beautiful.

No, the music is a popular professor is not dead, because some songs have become classics. No, my conservative friends, sacred music is still alive and kicking, if ever printed hymnal other physical or not. I do not think it matter if we sing his praises to God with a hymn, designed to insert text or a bulletin. Only then will we worship and praise.