Reading Good Books about Music

 

 Reading Good Books about Music

 

          All too many musicians' libraries consist of a host of volumes on music history, theory, literature, a few volumes of hymn stories, and their favorite hypnology text without a single concordance or lexicon to study the original Bible languages.  I hope that your word study appetite will be stimulated until you will at least invest in the standard works that are now keyed to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance.

          Now that we are in the twenty-first century approaches, you will need to not only be prepared spiritually and musically, but also have a deep understanding of the significance of music in the Bible.  It is important that you be able to understand the music of the Bible in Christian perspective.  I Corinthians 2:12-13 states, "Now ye have received, not of the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that ye might know the things that are freely given to us of God.  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual."

          No book, journal article, or blog post written by man will be able to completely guide church musicians in the twenty-first century.  Only an understanding of what the Book of Books has to say about sacred music will serve as a completely trustworthy guide for Christian musicians in this century.  It is my prayer that my blog will serve as catalyst to stimulate you to study music in the Book of Books, and that you will read the excellent materials that has been written about music and Christian music philosophy in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. If you are not familiar with writings that can be trusted, check on my blog under Recommended Resources which is found directly under the Blog Face.

 

Though for the Day

 

When a Christian musicing is evaluating progress toward accomplishing professional goals, it is always a good idea to also consider what the materials on music that he or she has read recently.