Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs

My title today is a scripture quote but it does not exhaust the range of church music.

Today is the Feast of St Cecilia, Patron Saint of musicians, especially church musicians.

Cultivated young patrician woman whose ancestors loomed large in Rome's history. She vowed her virginity to God, but her parents married her to Valerian of Trastevere. Cecilia told her new husband that she was accompanied by an angel, but in order to see it, he must be purified. He agreed to the purification, and was baptised; returning from the ceremony, he found her in prayer accompanied by a praying angel. The angel placed a crown on each of their heads, and offered Valerian a favor; the new convert asked that his brother be baptised. The two brothers developed a ministry of giving proper burial to martyred Christians. In their turn they were arrested and martyred for their faith. Cecilia buried them at her villa on the Apprian Way, and was arrested for the action. She was ordered to sacrifice to false gods; when she refused, she was martyred in her turn. The Acta of Cecilia includes the following: "While the profane music of her wedding was heard, Cecilia was singing in her heart a hymn of love for Jesus, her true spouse." It was this phrase that led to her association with music, singers, musicians, etc.
martyred c.117; suffocated for a while, and when that didn't kill her, she was beheaded; her grave was discovered in 817, and her body removed to the church of Saint Cecilia in Rome; the tomb was opened in 1599, and her body found to be incorrupt.

Brought up a Methodist with the tradition of John and Charles Wesley as hymn writers as well as preachers I appreciate the saying "Catholics have their missal, Anglicans their prayer book, and Methodists their hymn book". Music and hymnology etc for me are an important facilitator, stimulator, and proclaimer of spirituality even though I am no composer, musician, or singer. I thank God for revealing himself by these means and giving the gifts I do not possess to so many. I am also deeply grateful for the variety of ways which have been found to store and share this treasure house of the spirit. On the other hand I also experience the negative effect on my worship and prayer of "bad" music whether due to creator, vehicle, or performer and frequently cry "O Lord, give me your silence!"