Teaching God Concepts in the Music Classroom part 3

Teaching God Concepts in the Music Classroom part 3

When a music educator teaches that music is not amoral, what that teacher is saying is that when one arranges the formal properties of music into a congruent whole, which we call a musical composition, it has moral implications both inside and outside of the music itself.  Some Christian music educators and music philosophers object to the philosophical belief that music has moral implications.  They especially sometimes object to the belief that the formal properties of music have moral implications. 

Christian music educators sometimes believe those who purport that music is moral are saying, for instance, that an incomplete dominant ninth chord or an augmented second chord is either “evil” or “good”.  Although there may be some conservative Christian music philosophers who purport such a hypothesis, that certainly is not what most Christian music philosophers believe and put into their writings.