Articles tagged Music

Why Music Theory?

by Caleb
Friday, 12 December, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life

For what should be the end of music if not the love of beauty? - Plato When I took piano lessons, I hated doing music theory. I did not see that my stumbling and fumbling over pieces that required sight-reading and other knowledge of music theory was a result of my...

A Deep, Mental Breath

by David
Friday, 05 December, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life

Our lives are full of entertainment. One can scarcely imagine a day without music, YouTube, Facebook, movies, Netflix, NFL, 19 Kids and Counting, video games, and iPods. It seems as though all our time is caught up with some form of entertainment. In the old days,...

Richest Advent Lessons

by Kate
Thursday, 04 December, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life

Revisiting Some Archived Articles that Have Not Been Lost, but May Have Been Forgotten and Are Worth a Fresh Read Original Post Date: December 7, 2012 This year, I spent the first Sunday in Advent—a grey, drizzly, but unseasonably warm day—driving myself and three...

Learning to Be Musical

by Matt
Wednesday, 31 July, 2013
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education

You may remember from my previous article that I argued that we are all—barring some handicap—able to be musical. Therefore, I will not go into much detail about that point because that article addresses most of my reasons for believing this. Keeping this in mind,...

Are You Musical?

by Matt
Friday, 19 July, 2013
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education

Are you musical? What a question! And the answer will affect so much of what we consider our children and ourselves capable of, much less what we are willing to attempt. As you might have guessed, I suspect that far too many of us consider ourselves unmusical—or maybe...

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