Gaining Understanding about Music

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 20^th 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