# Taking A Look At The Differences Between Old And New Music Music entertains, educates and informs. While it has been around for a long time music has gone through a number of changes that range from the instruments used to the style of composition. To help you out, here are some of the ways in which music has evolved over the years: **Use of instruments** Old music was sung using real instruments. The instruments used included: cello, viola, tuba, French horn, bassoon, trombone, trumpet and many others. Even when recording, the musicians had to play the real instruments. Due to this, the old musicians had to first learn to play the instruments then record the music. This is no longer the case with the modern music. Modern music heavily relies on computer programs. Using the programs you can enter the sound of any music instrument without having the instrument at your disposal or even knowing how to play it. This has given rise to millions of music superstars who even don't know the most basic music instruments. ![](https://i.imgur.com/Rg6l3bG.jpg) **Genre** Most of the old musicians stuck with a given music genre. When you were asked to group the different musicians in specific categories depending on their music genres, you could easily do it. This is no longer the case. Genres in modern music are blurred as musicians fit different genres. Currently, it's not uncommon to find a musician singing hip-hop and at the same time engaging in R&B. Some musicians have even won awards in music categories that aren't known for. For example, Nelly, who is known for R&B has won a country music award. Due to the limited confinement of the different music genres, the music world has become confused and it's almost impossible to tell the specific genre that a given musician engages in. **Music and class** While some few old songs used to be offensive and the stage shows sometimes got raucous, things have gone worse. Currently, especially in the Hip-Hop world, the music has become too offensive. If you have attended hip-hop shows you must have noticed that most of the rappers openly insult their audiences and use a lot of offensive words. When it comes to R&B, the music has moved from the good old positive and empowering music to provocative and sometimes offensive music. In summary, we can say that the modern music has lost class. The unfortunate thing is that the audience seems to love it. **Method of creation** Since the old songs heavily relied on melody, the composers took time creating their music. Some of the composers have reported taking years to come up with one of their songs. This is because they composed their music while imagining how their music would sound. This isn't the case with modern music. Nowadays, the musicians can compose a song in as little as a few hours and the song **[Hurrian Hymn no.6](https://discoveryman.com/เพลงแรกของโลก/)** become an instant hit. This is because all they need is a computer program to create a rhythm that the audience will love. One word of caution, especially to the conservative evangelical denominations. There is a huge tendency to have the worship songs, with the modern beat and instruments, and then insert the token hymn for the oldies, doing this with only an organ or a piano, played in a traditional yet boring style. I strongly caution you against this, because this only promotes the "us verses them" scenario, the "your music verses our music" polarizing we see in churches. ![](https://i.imgur.com/rT7NLl0.jpg) The best way is to just roll from the worship into the hymn, seamlessly, and using a similar modern style. The majority of older folk will appreciate the fact that you are including their song preference, and making it your own, and trying as hard to make it special as if it were your own style of song. Thus, you can use well played hymns to join hearts in worship, rather than having the separate song for the oldies. Hymns should provide a wonderful theme to unite the old and the young in your church, but there are keys that will help you bring these grand old songs to your church in a new and fresh way. Our calling in worship leading is not to stay stuck in the past, but to draw the very best of the past into the present day and adapt the best of Christian heritage to today's modern worship. **Conclusion** While we can conclusively say that old songs are much of a better quality than the new songs, there are some songs that are bad whether old or new. It's up to you to choose the ones that are pleasing to your ears.