Amazing Grace Music Analysis

Amazing Grace is one of the popular Negro Spiritual Song. This song was composed by the British slave trader, John Newton who had a dramatic faith experience during at sea when the weather was storm. In modern days, Amazing Grace has been played especially at funerals and memorial services, and sung at civil rights events and also, it was recorded as hit pop music charts too. Throughout the piece, the message is simple, although there was an ideal hymn. When music had not been as prevalent, although, by the 19th century, many Christian leaders began to argue that music is enhanced as religious worship. Moreover, these people felt that it make believers closer to God and softened their hearts and minds so that they might receive God's message.