My belief that some musicians will be damaged more
because they understand the musical sounds more than others does not put a
premium on a Christian’s ignorance of a particular; genre of music; I am merely
stating that those who are the most entrenched in worldly styles of music will
possibly be the ones who receive the greatest emotional and spiritual damage
from performing and listening to it.
This is all the more reason to not pander to the worldly seekers
addictions to spiritually harmful styles of music.
Christian
musicians also must be aware to the sound addictions that some seekers
have. It gives strong impetus to the
church to provide the un-churched seeker a diet of “new song” which will be
music of a higher renovated character than the music with which they have
surrounded themselves. There is no doubt
about it, many sinners will need a renewing of the mind which will not be
possible if church music sounds feed
their sinful lusts by that triggering lust and passion.
At this point in our discussion I find it germane to
return to the school of music philosophy called formalism. When considering
the well known philosophy of strict
formalists, it is generally understood that they believe that the meaning
of “absolute music” [music without words] is meaningless outside of the music
itself. What that means is that in the
real world, the “meaning” of the musical sounds produced from the music written
on the score are actually meaningless marks on the page since they supposedly have no meaning in
the extra-musical world and are incapable of communicating anything practical
or referential.
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