Music in Social and Religious Life part 2

Music in Social and Religious Life part 2

            If a musician accepts the fact that all music has moral implications, then that musician is cognizant of the reality that the music he or she performs, or lead others in performing, will communicate something to both performers and listeners.  A musician who is a leader cannot escape the fact that all music and musicing matters because it has power to have either a positive or negative effect on all who experience it in any way. 

            Every musician should seriously consider what he or she is attempting to communicate through the music he or she selects for other musicians to perform and also to be listened to by an audience.  All music either performed live or recorded for future listening will communicate something to its audience.  So, a musician cannot escape the responsibility that musicing places upon the musicer.  This responsibility extends to all of a musician’s secular and sacred musicing.  Music used in Christian worship, music education, and in recreation all have purpose and therefore carry with their usage a deep responsibility which is of necessity placed upon the leader who selected it for others to experience.