Articles tagged Music Appreciation

What Does Beauty Require of Us?
by Caleb
Friday, 21 August, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
Friday, 21 August, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
Preface: I am writing from the perspective of my passion for music. There are countless other passions and areas of interest where the following ideas could be applied. I am not writing as if everyone should approach music a certain way. I am writing that everyone...

Music as a Liberating Art (Excerpted from The Neglected Muse: Why Music Is an Essential Liberal Art [Part V*])

by Peter
Tuesday, 30 April, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, College and Post Graduation
Tuesday, 30 April, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, College and Post Graduation
The study of music has several goals. One of them is to improve, through education, students' aesthetic taste: to introduce them to truly great music in an effort to beget a love for all things graceful and well formed. As a music teacher, I hope that the study of...