Musical and Social Meaning… Part 14
Christian musicians at times seem to forget
that although baby boomer’s musical views will probably not be altered much by
the music that a worship leader is trying out on the congregation in order to
be trendy, children and teenagers will be forever changed by what and how a
Christian community musics. Music has the potential to change how millennials
and little children will view the world and even more seriously their paradigm
of God. All too many congregations of believers are subtly (and sometimes not
so subtly) being catechized that that traditional forms of sacred musicing are
not meaningful or relevant to 21st century worship.
Remember that metalanguage, as used here,
means that music communicates beyond the restraints of spoken or written
communication. A faith-based music philosophy that is based on current knowledge
of how music triggers emotional states of mind and on Bible based principles of
musicing should consider that, since music is so emotive, it is capable of
bypassing reason and restraint. Considering music and musicing as metalanguage and
metacommunication helps in the development of insight into understanding the
world of emotions and passions triggered by musicing that help to develop an
ideologically informed paradigm and ultimately a person’s worldview.
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