A Faerie emerged from the gathering. Seeing two brothers in the country side, beckoned for them to return with him for musical enjoyment. One of the brother's was afraid to enter the dark hole in the hill side, even though the Faerie music was enchanting. The other brother entered the cave with the Faerie, told his brother to wait, for he would return shortly. At dark the brother who had remained, left for home and returned each day for a year, until his brother who had entered the cave returned. Such is the power of Faerie music.
Confucius
Confucius (551-479 BC) assigned an important place to music in the service of a well-ordered moral universe. He saw music and government as reflecting one another and believed that only the superior man who can understand music is equipped to govern. Music, he thought, reveals character through the six emotions that it can portray: sorrow, satisfaction, joy, anger, piety, love. According to Confucius, great music is in harmony with the universe, restoring order to the physical world through that harmony. Music, as a true mirror of character, makes pretense or deception impossible.
The Thora contains no directions respecting the use of song and music in divine worship except the commands concerning the ritualistic use of silver trumpets to be blown by the priests. King David is really the creator of liturgical music, and to his arrangements, as we see from the Chronicles, every thing was afterwards referred, and in times when it had fallen into disuse, restored. So long as David lived, the superintendence of the liturgical music was in his hands.
Well documented studies support the fact that music plays an important part in early childhood development. In addition, brain development and corresponding increases in test results are also well documented. With such preponderance of information to support the inclusion of music in our schools why are more and more school systems across America either eliminating or seriously cutting back music programs? A possible answer is that those who direct such elimination's or cut backs are misguided, ill informed or ignorant. Another possible answer is that those of us who enjoy music in the WWW are complacent in our attitude toward the importance of music in our schools.
No matter which answer or any other answer one may accept as true, the fact remains the we like the early church under King David are in peril of also losing our music unless we as a WWW community actively support Save The Music with our prayers, money, letters, e-mails, attendance at local school board meetings, promotion of music in the home, and by any other means at our disposal.
Our background midi is a reminder that we could one day say goodbye to music.
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