Line #31 Main/HymnToMusic


1	->Nothing can be better than a sweet love song
2	->So sweet so sweet so mellow
3	->When you got the girl that you love in your arm
4	->Oh honey I love you I love you yeah
5	->Music is the healing force of the world\
6	It's understood by every man woman boy and girl
7	--> ''Music/TheOJays'', "I Love Music"
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9	Singers, rappers, and other musicians sing about a lot of things. [[SillyLoveSongs Love]], [[IntercourseWithYou sex]], [[GriefSong sorrow]], {{revenge}}, [[ObsessionSong a specific person or object]], [[CreatorProvincialism their home]] [[LocationSong neighborhoods]] . . . And sometimes [[{{Meta}} music itself]].
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11	A Hymn to Music is a song dedicated to music itself and the artist's love of it, whether professionally or on a personal level.
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13	A supertrope of HeavyMeta, which is a singing about a specific genre of music. Compare RadioSong, about music's most common medium. ExhortTheDiscJockeySong is a subtrope.
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16	!!Examples include:
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18	* "I Love Music", by Music/TheOJays.
19	-->I love music, sweet sweet music\
20	I love music, just as long as it's groovy\
21	I love I love I love I love I love I love music\
22	I love I love I love I love I love I love music\
23	I love music, any kind of music\
24	I love music, just as long as it's groovy
25	* "Music", {{Music/Madonna}}'s hit.
26	-->Music, music\
27	Music makes the people come together\
28	Music mix the bourgeoisie and the rebel
29	* Cansei de Ser Sexy's "[[BetterThanSex Music Is My Hot Sex]]".
30	* "Thank You for the Music" by Music/{{ABBA}}.
31	* ''Series/FraggleRock'': At the beginning of the episode "The Minstrels", Cantus is seen for the first time in the series, singing "Let Me Be Your Song", all about the wonders of music.
32	-->'''Cantus:''' ''[singing]'' Music grows in the rose,\
33	Rock and rain and the blowin' snowstorm.\
34	Everything seems to sing, everywhere I go.\
35	'''Cantus and Murray:''' I say, one, two, play me, do.\
36	Let me sound as sweet as you.\
37	Play me wide, play me long.\
38	Let me be your song!
39	* The Hip-Hop/Soul Temporal Duet "Music" by [[Music/{{EPMD}} Erick Sermon]], featuring lines from an acapella outtake by Music/MarvinGaye.
40	* Music/BarryManilow: "I Write the Songs" is written from the first-person perspective of music itself.
41	* In classical music, anything in honour of St. Cecilia (patron saint of music) is likely to be this. Often, it's not just a single song but a long, multi-movement ode or cantata. Very popular in the Baroque era, and prominent examples exist by Handel (''Alexander's Feast'' and ''A Song for St. Cecilia's Day'', both based on poems by Dryden) and Purcell (''Hail! Bright Cecilia'' and ''Welcome to all the Pleasures''). In the twentieth century, Britten also wrote a ''Hymn to St. Cecilia''.
42	* Franz Schubert's ''An die Musike.''
43	* The ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together" featured two: The first is "History of Rock" (sometimes called "Danny's Story"), a song by (then former) Love Handel frontman Danny about how he got started in music. The second is the short "Music Makes us Better" by the reunited band during the credits.
44	* "I Love Rock And Roll" by Music/JoanJett
45	* "You Can't Kill Rock and Roll" by Ozzy
46	* "Music" by JohnMiles
47	-->Music was my first love
48	-->And it will be my last.
49	-->Music of the future
50	-->And music of the past
51	-->To live without my music
52	-->Would be impossible to do
53	-->In this world of troubles
54	-->My music pulls me through
55	* The title song from ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic''.
56	* "Music Of The Night" from Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera.
57	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' has "When It's Only Me And The Music" and "Music Is Magic".
58	* Common Rider's "Classics Of Love" is basically about music being a positive force in one's life ("Sun shining down on a cloudy day / I know those songs gonna last forever, that's what I say). It's also got a few {{Shout Out}}s to specific artists, most blatantly Desmond Dekker, Music/TheClash, Music/TheWho and Music/EllaFitzgerald.
59	* "Say It With Music" by Music/IrvingBerlin.
60	* GaitaZuliana in general, mixed with ThisIsASong just to spice it.
61	* American Pie by Music/DonMcLean for rock and roll.
62	* The a cappella doo-wop group The Persuasions use [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKQlLuO20w4 "Still Ain't Got No Band"]] as their theme song.
63	* Barbershoppers LOVE this trope. There are countless songs written by barbershop singers about their love of barbershop quartet music, such as:
64	** Give Me That Barbershop Style
65	** I Love That Barbershop Style
66	** Bad Buncha Boys (Singin' Barbershop)
67	** That Old Quartet of Mine
68	** The Chordbusters March
69	* "Drift Away" by Dobie Gray is another ode to rock.
70	* Music/{{Cornershop}}'s SignatureSong "Brimful of Asha". The verses pay tribute to the performers of Indian film music, while the middle eight comprises a list of shout-outs to the group's other musical influences.
71	* "Turn It Loose" by Music/TheJudds, about country music specifically.
72	* "Heart Songs" by Music/{{Weezer}} is an ode to the bands and songs that front man Rivers Cuomo listened to growing up and influenced his musical style. He mentions a diverse group of artists including Music/GordonLightfoot, Music/JohnLennon, Music/BruceSpringsteen, Music/{{ABBA}}, Music/MichaelJackson, Music/IronMaiden, Music/JudasPriest, and Music/{{Slayer}}.
73	-->These are my heart songs
74	-->They never feel wrong
75	-->And when I wake, for goodness sake
76	-->These are the songs I keep singing
77	* "Sound System" by Operation Ivy is about music's ability to improve your mood when things seem hopeless, if only temporarily:
78	--> Sound system gonna bring me back up
79	--> Yeah, one thing that I can depend on

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