Meditations on when the message is Christian even though the song wasn't written for church

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Oct 29, 2021
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Since literacy is precarious on the Internet, I'll refrain from posting examples, but I was thinking about songwriting, composition and message. Music is a form of communication that relies on context and cultural knowledge more than it does prosody and the ability to lecture a captive audience.

Has anyone else here ever studied The Art of the Fugue? It describes in detail the difference in form and intent, as well as content and function, between a sacred and a secular composition.