MUS 4280: The Music of Faith

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Number: MUS 4280:

Name: The Music of Faith

Instructor: ACU Shared Course (Intro)

Section: IS-001

Credits: 3


Learning Resources:

Text:  Music Through the Eyes of Faith (Paperback—click on title to purchase)

          by Harold Best (Can be purchased at Christianbook.com or Amazon.com) 

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E-Sword (www.e-sword.net) e-Sword is a free software package that offers multiple bible translations, commentaries, and other biblical resources.  e-Sword is feature rich and user friendly with more capabilities than you would expect in a free software package.  This is a great resource for additional bible and bible-related sources.

Questia.com subscription: Questia is an online library of over 400,000 downloadable resources, including books, journals and periodical articles. Subscriptions are available on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis, and will replace the purchase of individual textbooks if needed for this course. (Optional but not required)

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Course Description:

This course presents the concepts and characteristics that form great music evaluated from a Christian perspective. Key concepts include the theory and underlying structure of music.  Developments in music are also traced from a spiritual and cultural perspective.

Course Goals and Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, students will:

1. Be exposed to major concepts in music from a Christian worldview.

2. Read and discuss the nature of truth and beauty in music.

3. Understand the principles that determine quality in music from a Christian perspective.

4. Be exposed to various purposes served by music from a Christian worldview.

5. Be exposed to shifts in musical expression through history.

6. Evaluate historical and contemporary music through a framework of Christian faith.

 

 

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