The Holistic Perspective of the Lutheran Chorale as an Integrating Factor of the Christian Faith

Music is the art which demonstrated that the rapprochement of people (in spite of religious differences from a dogmatic and cultic perspective), is necessary and feasible, as long as the superior idea of faith exists as a vital guiding principle that has the purpose of combating the essential evil. Music created a path through which a dialog was started between the main religious orientations—Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant. Humanity had been struggling to reach a superior level of affirmation of its ideals, and Christianity, of any form, had been helping in its efforts to overcome such struggles. For, of course, as music builds on the principle of universal harmony, our deeds follow suit. The beginnings of the Protestant music in the Europe of the 14th–16th centuries are related to the spiritual manifestations necessary for the shaping of the new religious and, first of all, to the great stature of Martin Luther and the other representatives of the Reformation. Over time, the shedding of values and routines had established certain hierarchies, but the creation of new musical genera during the Renaissance appears useful in building a Protestant music repertoire. The musical core is—and this argument is that the model resists the test of history—the Lutheran chorus, which will become more and more defined in its manifold manifesto. It is worth appreciating the details of the types of Choral, Anthem, Hymn, Cantata and Passion. The holistic perspective of the Lutheran chorus culminates with Bach, which in turn, makes the Lutheran spiritual model more clearly understood, but also has lasting consequences in classicism, romanticism, to the creation of 20th–century composers.