Articles tagged Musical

Musical Taste and Music Education

by Caleb
Monday, 23 March, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)

Media and culture repeatedly preach musical taste as having something inherently associated with who you are as an individual, what you value, and your meaning as a person. This is why many of us have “favorite” bands or artists. We may even take offense when others do...

Music Together!

by Caleb
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...

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...

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...