The linking between music and
religion is ancient and universal. It was in the religious activity
that music founded to herself. From her, emerged her science,
developped her technique, realized her ability, expanded her
expression, her transcendent strength became apparent and her
beauty was impregnated with an eternal meaning.
Religion
and music have a lot of natural affinities. Both express the sensation
that the man has a spiritual meaning of univers, the man’s
spiritual life, and it refers not to sight or temporal things,
but to imagined and eternal ones. And more the character is elevated,
more is the mix of the essence.
Because if religion is the primary and most necessary activityof
human spirit, and music is the most complete expressionof human
spirit, greatest is the music, more religious must be.
The holy music is the one capable to redeem man to God. The
religious music, instead, pretends to link the different members
of a community to cult or divine praise.
John Paul II says: “ Precisely because the sound is fitted
with a particular strength of spirit acuteness, music must be
considered like a way to ennoble man and favour his best abilities…Because
of that is necessary that each other could accede to musical art,
either to dedicate to it with professional effort or to taste its
ineffable richness”
The instrument more played in
the national or world-wide ambit is the guitar, and through
her a poor child or the most outstanding scientist, or a dealer
or a workman can accede to musical art, as the guitar is in
the mood and the heart of all the argentines.
Since
the creation of the National Anthem, this precious instrument has
always been in Argentina union, over war ideas or politic association
groups, we could heard its verses with a deep emotion, sang by
a “gaucho”,
an Indian, a nigger or a half-caste, even till the distant cities
or the remote country-side. It was sung with spirit and, as always,
assisted by a guitar.
Domine
Trio has realized a meticulous adaptation of a totally unpublished
material for guitar, religious pieces and in particular sacred
of the greatest composers from all the times, making a hudge effort
to distinguish the music God likes and the one He doesn’t.
Through theirs strings, Domine
Trio gets the qualities of solemnity and stately, able to stir
up feelings of praise, imploration, thanks.giving, joy, love,
confidence and peace.
During centuries, musical instruments
were prohibited during the liturgy, even the organ till the
XV century, had big difficulties to be accepted. It was thought
that its presence evoked the pagan parties of the society.
Nowadays the Constiution about
Sacred Liturgy opened its way to all kind of musical instruments.
The sacred music is a gift from God to men that needs to be
cultivated by the intelligence, so waking through the way of
art, gets richness and makes beautiful harmonies.
In
the New Testament, Saint Paul writes to Efeso’s people: “ Sing and play for
the Lord, from the depth of your heart” ( Ef 5, 19).
Lic.
Daniel Cabrio
