Gaining Understanding about Music
I
have continued to gather material about music and musicing that consider
current concerns of music philosophy. My
desire is to continue to gain an understanding of the various concerns which
secular music philosophers were writing about, and discuss them from a
Christian perspective. The reason I have
decided to continue to discuss these issues and concerns of music philosophy from
a Christian perspective is that, almost universally they are not considered
from a “faith basis” and most certainly not from a Bible basis that treats the Biblical
Record as inspired and authoritative and relevant.
The
few references to the Bible given in scattered secular music philosophy books
have, most of the time, not been specific enough to make them worth quoting. Frankly,
at the time of the preparation of this EBook, the only current secular college
music philosophy text that has given a valuable and fair treatment of faith as
a basis for music philosophy is Donald Hodges Book a Concise Survey of Music Philosophy. Most music philosophy books have not
considered faith as a basis for developing a music philosophy or what the Bible
teaches about music and musicing to be authoritative truth. Most music philosophers have failed to
recognize that the Bible gives us what Francis Schafer has called “true truth”
and what I term “true musical truth”.
Almost without exception secular music philosophers in the 20th
century and now in this century have not considered what the Bible teaches to
be an accurate source of information on which one could build a music
philosophy
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