Lindsey Gilroy-Hallelujah

Within the text, Van der Leeuw describes music as a servant to dance or theater, and through the Roman Catholic Church it shoud serve some sort of function rather of worship rather than just entertainment. He discusses the need to keep helm of liturgical unity by placing the choir near the center of worship. The words that are song in places of worship are often rhythmic extensions of prayer or poetry, done in a repetitive manner. An example of this repetition can be seen in the song “Hallelujah”. The word itself means to express thanks or gratitude to God. "The repetition of a particular exclamation gives force to an incantation" (Van der Leeuw 221). As Van derLeeuw mentions on pg. 220, the music that we have today derives from the music of church and worship; therefore, I have included a modern music video and lyrical depiction of the text.

I heard there was a secret chord

That David played and it pleased the Lord

But you don't really care for music, do you?

It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift, the baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelu----jah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof, you saw her bathing on the roof, her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you

She tied you to a kitchen chair, she broke your throne, she cut your hair, and from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelu----jah

Maybe I have been here before, I know this room; I have walked this floor, I used to live alone before I knew you

I've seen your flag on the marble arch, love is not a victory march, it's a cold and its a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelu----jah

There was a time you let me know whats really going on below, but now you never show it to me, do you? (and)

Remember when I moved in you; the holy dark was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelu----jah

Maybe there's a God above, and all I ever learned from love was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you

And its not a cry you can hear at night, its not somebody who's seen the light, its a cold and its a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelu--jah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelu---u---jah

(See video here)