2017
DOI: 10.3390/rel8040051
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Teaching Music in the Reformed/Calvinist Tradition: Sphere Sovereignty and the Arts

Abstract: This article shares objectives, teaching methods, and sources of inspiration as I lead 21st-century students in engaging a Reformed/Calvinistic vision for the arts generally, and music specifically. Special explanation is made of Calvinistic concepts such as sphere sovereignty and sensus divinitatis. To conclude, I discuss aspects of a recent composition titled The God of Material Things by Jonathan Posthuma, a graduate of our college music program, whose work exemplifies many of the elements that my colleague… Show more

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“…Literature [14] analyzed the differences in the performance of students with different levels of musical interest in their music teaching careers and explored the impact of career choice in music teaching through three career groups: music teaching, other music, and musicians. Literature [15] explored the expression of Calvinist concepts in music teaching, using the piece "God of Materials" as a case study of the elements in which musical accomplishments are distinguished. Literature [16] discusses the problems and challenges faced by music teachers in the UK based on the current state of teaching and learning, focusing on their perspectives on the potential opportunities for music education to provide some guidance for music teaching through the lens of music teachers.…”
Section: Status Of Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Literature [14] analyzed the differences in the performance of students with different levels of musical interest in their music teaching careers and explored the impact of career choice in music teaching through three career groups: music teaching, other music, and musicians. Literature [15] explored the expression of Calvinist concepts in music teaching, using the piece "God of Materials" as a case study of the elements in which musical accomplishments are distinguished. Literature [16] discusses the problems and challenges faced by music teachers in the UK based on the current state of teaching and learning, focusing on their perspectives on the potential opportunities for music education to provide some guidance for music teaching through the lens of music teachers.…”
Section: Status Of Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In recent years, the state has called for the inheritance and development of excellent Chinese traditional music culture and to do a good job in the dissemination and export of excellent Chinese culture [4]. In this context, colleges and universities also actively respond to the call of the state, vigorously explore the value of Chinese excellent traditional culture, teaching integration and campus inheritance in colleges and universities, to play the talent shaping value of Chinese excellent traditional culture, to cultivate students' sentiments, to set up lofty ideals, to enhance cultural cultivation, and to devote themselves to their learning and life with the correct value concepts and deep national sentiments [5]. Colleges and universities are also in the Chinese outstanding traditional music culture teaching in the development of the real, vigorously carry forward the essence of traditional music culture, firm "casting soul nurturing" concept, for the sustainable development of traditional music culture into high-quality talent [6].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%