[Claud]

Who jumps more than someone conducting Handel's Messiah? Is there no emotionalism in a chant or a psalm?

No, there's definitely emotion there! I can't listen to Palestrina's Sicut Cervus without getting swept into another world. But it's a different sort of emotional I guess. More quiet...more still..less enervating.

I am talking about the whole of the rock genre...from Chuck Berry to whatever passes for it nowadays LOL.

Sometimes secular music hits on something I guess....Greensleeves back in its day was turned into a beautiful Christmas carol (What Child is This). But by and large ends of the sacred and secular are different.

[beezdotcom]

But it's a different sort of emotional I guess. More quiet...more still..less enervating.

See, now we're starting to delve into personal preferences - which is FINE. I just grow weary of having people tell me how certain music MUST affect ME, and it happens all too often in some churches.