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For as good Musike consisteth not of one, but of divers sowndes proportionablie answering together: so doeth the Commonweale of sundrie kinds of men keping themselves within the limits of their owne callings.
— Thomas Rogers, A Golden Chaine (1587)
Musicians wrestle everywhere -All day - among the crowded airI hear the silver strife -And - waking - long before the mornSuch transport breaks upon the townI think it that “New Life”!It is not Bird - it has no nest -Nor “Band” - in brass and scarlet - drestNor Tamborin - nor Man -It is not Hymn from pulpit read -The “Morning Stars” the Treble ledOn Time’s first Afternoon!Some - say - it is “the Spheres” - at play!Some say - that bright MajorityOf vanished Dames - and Men!Some - think it service in the placeWhere we - with late - celestial facePlease God - shall Ascertain!— Emily Dickinson, 1861
Music is first and foremost a human practice. By that I mean that it is ‘sounded’ by voices and/or instruments by means of a disciplined set of embodied skills. Theology, too, is a practice, or more accurately, a complex set of practices. … Thinking, writing, and speaking theologically about God, the world, and being human moves in both contemplative and practical modes. … Could it be that such a beholding of the truth of things, as well as the source of goodness and beauty, may be embodied in the various arts, and most pointedly in music? Might this require attention to the dissonant, the tension-filled, and the difficult truths as well as the harmonious, the beautiful, and the praiseworthy?
—Don Saliers, Music and Theology
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