I believe that they are saying that an astute Christian musician will observe that the way that the formal properties of music are put together to form a music composition, definitely do have strong moral implications. Certainly this argument will never be settled until Jesus returns “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known (I Corinthians 1312).”
The fact that we do not have exhaustive truth about the moral
implications of music does not mean that until we do we should blindly follow
every musical fad a fashion that the world considers proper for worship. Surely conservative Christian musicians
should be able to exercise some wise discretion when it comes to the
appropriateness of the music we use in public and private worship. This discretion must be taught in the early elementary
music classroom. I believe that is a
huge educational and philosophical mistake for music educators to depend on
good philosophical concepts of music to be “caught” from what happens in
churches and concerts by Christian artists.
Music philosophy must be directly taught in the early elementary music
classroom if one expects to effect positive behavioral musical changes in the
next generation of our youth.
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