Articles tagged Harmony

Learning from a Simple Melody: Scarborough Fair (Excerpted from The Neglected Muse: Why Music Is an Essential Liberal Art [Part IV*])

by Peter
Wednesday, 03 April, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, College and Post Graduation
Wednesday, 03 April, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, College and Post Graduation
Music education that aims at real knowledge requires careful attention to the elements of music: tones, time-values, intervals, etc. Students must learn to read music and correctly identify notes on a staff. Soon after this "basic training," they should look closely at...

“Education is to train the heart to love that which deserves loving.”
by Caleb
Thursday, 28 March, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
Thursday, 28 March, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
This quote from John Hodges’ first lecture at the Toward the Quadrivium event struck a chord with me. It invoked a desire to act! I realized there are many more good things I should love. So many, in fact, that it would require more than a million lifetimes of study...