SOME PSYCHO-PEDAGOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON MUSICAL EDUCATION by Călin DRAGOŞ

“…In this way, students can progress from music consumers to music users and producers, knowledge and aesthetic taste gatherers who strive for ideals and beauty. …”
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‘O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: let the whole earth tremble before him’ (Psalm 96:9)

“…Attendance at Cathedral-type worship where dignified ceremony and beautiful music leave the worshipper free to place his or her own interpretation on the words is steadily increasing. …”
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Catholic Church Interiors in Fin-de-Siècle Literature by Claire Masurel-Murray

“…In Dowson’s correspondence or in his poem ‘Benedictio Domini’, in Johnson’s ‘Our Lady of France’, in Wratislaw’s ‘Palm Sunday’ and ‘Songs to Elizabeth’, in some of Wilde’s stories, the opposition between inside and outside expresses figuratively the fundamental incompatibility between an ideal of beauty, embodied in the aesthetic experience of the church, and the coarseness of the outside world. …”
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