Peter Banks

The Secret Chord Peter Banks

Is there really a 'Secret Chord' that would both please the LORD and nearly everybody else as described in Leonard Cohen's popular song 'Hallelujah'? Whilst a significant number of books have been published exploring the relationships between music, art, popular culture and theology, many of which we have enjoyed and from which we have benefitted, they tend to be either academic analysis or semi biographical about artistes whose output the writers' enjoy. By contrast, The Secret Chord is an accessible exploration of artistic dilemmas from a range of different perspectives which seeks to draw the reader into a place of appreciation for what makes a moment in a 'performance' timeless and special. The writers' experience of creativity is of disparate and often contradictory ideas being crushed, swirled, fermented, shaken and stirred in our minds in order that the fine wine of creativity results.