Music Education’s Connection to Ancient Bible Music Education-part 3

Music Education’s Connection to Ancient Bible Music Education-part 3

            Why all the fuss about ancient music and the obvious musical education of the ancient Jews and the Babylonians?  First, these findings mentioned in the first two posts of this series put rest the notion that written music and hence music education definitely started with the Greeks.  Second, it presents solid evidence that music in ancient Israel and other cultures was highly developed during OT times.  Third, these evidences of early music writing and music education in ancient Israel and the surrounding cultures give credence to the hypothesis that there is doubtlessly much more that we can learn about music and musicing from these ancient cultures.

            What I am stressing in this discussion is that music education is not the invention of the Occident.  Some music educators, especially in the United States, try to make Christian musicians believe that music education is philosophically a secular based enterprise.  Under this false paradigm it is no wonder that these humanistic music educators and philosophers totally ignore what the Bible teaches about music, musicing and music education.