Why did organs get so widely introduced in Churches in the West (in contrast with Orthodox parishes, which generally have strictly a cappella music)? Organs are terrible, only music I ever heard where the organ was actually used to great effect is Toccata and Fugue (although I imagine Bach's other organ pieces are also great). Even instrumental organ music generally sounds awful, like in old movies and some productions of Shakespeare's plays, but as an accompaniment to choral, it is truly hideous. I can't think of any Christian hymn that's generally used with an organ, that wouldn't sound better without an organ.
>only music I ever heard where the organ was actually used to great effect is Toccata and Fugue (although I imagine Bach's other organ pieces are also great)
lol. It's called the King of Instruments for a reason.
A pity Catholics don't use that sort of music anymore. And desu I don't think the guitar stuff (at least for Church music) is any better than the organ) youtube.com/watch?v=u0iOBOIwQ2o
Jordan Peterson
For choir to sound good you need bunch of great singers and conductor. For organ,you need one fit man for a job. Bach,for example,had lots of problems to find people to sing for his masses and cantatas.
The organ can only do super goofy (circus, for instance), or super ominous (and it must tread lightly with the latter, or else it too sounds goofy, like with music often used in silent movies).
Brody Wright
The song, by the way, is an ominous variation on the religious march from the Godfather Part II (which, due to its first use, already connoted an ominous theme).
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Eli Harris
Organs can be great, they're the one instrument I think is acceptable in the liturgy (though a capella is always appropriate as well) and they have a very long history in the west.
I'm not a fan of when they overpower the choir, though. They can make things like the Te Deum sound incredibly powerful.
Orthodox definitely had money (think of the Byzantine and Russian Empires), it's just that the Orthodox have always mainly stuck with the more traditional a capella music (though you will rarely see Orthodox parishes with organs). The Western church was initially opposed to them as well and only started adopting them in the Middle Ages.
Nolan Myers
That's your opinion. I like organ music.
Sebastian Cox
Why are Slav faces so weird.
Ryder Phillips
The Orthodox Church did not use the organ for it's ceremonies because it's considered the most secular instrument the Byzantine Empire knew. It was used for imperial ceremonies and made it thus a profane instrument which wouldn't be appropriate for mass.
During the time of Charlemange the organ came to the west and they promptly used it for mass since that was the highest form of ceremony known to them.
Anthony Brooks
that's actually what humans are supposed to look like
we're the genetic freaks here
Tyler Kelly
Perhaps Saint-Saens Organ Symphony will change your opinion.
