Articles tagged Music

Carpe Symphoniam

by Marc
Tuesday, 03 March, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Tuesday, 03 March, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Last year, I accompanied my Classical Conversations Challenge II students and their parents to the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, Tennessee to hear the Nashville Symphony. The symphony orchestra performed three pieces by Mozart, one of which was his Piano...

Music and God's Good Timing
by Caleb
Monday, 09 February, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!
Monday, 09 February, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!
Most often, we assume if something takes time, it is not as good. Even if we recognize in our minds that this is not true, our actions speak much differently (this is especially true for Americans). We love fast food. We love buying things online. Amazon Prime is the...

Identity and Music
by Caleb
Tuesday, 27 January, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!
Tuesday, 27 January, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!
As humans we crave an understanding of who we are and our purpose for living. Many of us find purpose through the approval of others or by connecting ourselves with a certain person or group of people. Ironically, we may even find purpose through the approval of no one...

Music Notation: Creating a Passion for Music
by Caleb
Wednesday, 21 January, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Wednesday, 21 January, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Music I have always loved. He who knows music has a good nature. Necessity demands that music be kept in the schools.
– Martin Luther
Growing up as a minister’s son, I spent countless Sunday mornings and evenings singing hymns and psalms by way of hymn and psalter...

Music Together!
by Caleb
Monday, 29 December, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
Monday, 29 December, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
Theologian Abraham Kuyper said, “There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, ‘Mine!’” Not only does everything belong to God, but He has also given us responsibilities of stewardship...