The bible tell us that Joshua’s trumpet blasts toppled the walls of Jericho; the David cured Saul’s madness by playing the harp; that in the temple at Jerusalem he musician played. Cymbals and psalteries and harps. And with them and an hundred and twenty priests soundings with trumpets.
Such stories attest to the ancient belief that music had magical power: it could work natural miracles, cure the sick, and, in the service of god, purify the souls of the worshipers. We have already seen that from earliest times music was an inseparable part of ritual and ceremony- a function that would continue for centuries to come.
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