Developing a Music Philosophy in Christian
Perspective—part 9
The
Christian who is a strict formalist
purports that “music alone” or what some writers refer to as ‘absolute
music” only has meaning that is “musics
meaning alone”. This position denies
that the music by itself has any understandable meaning that may relate to real
life. Some of them follow the notion
that perhaps instrumental music’s meaning can bring greater insight into understanding
the meaning of one’s life. Music is
powerful, and it can have either a positive or negative influence on one’s
life. However, the meaning of life is
never found in music or musicing. The
true meaning of life can only be found by being born again, reading God’s word,
and by having a real relationship to Jesus Christ our Savior.
A musician who musics unto God with this
philosophical basis is free to music in any manner that he or she chooses. Such a musicer is independent of the Lordship
of God’s Word because religious musicing has no absolute true understandable
meaning beyond the formal properties of the music. Thus we have come full circle to the
philosophical belief in religious musicing is a musical event. The influence of religious humanists upon millennials
who are autonomous musicians has caused much confusion in church music in the
past decade.
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