{"id":162,"date":"2013-01-11T16:03:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T16:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/?p=162"},"modified":"2024-01-31T16:55:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T21:55:42","slug":"the-spiritual-meaning-of-music-for-bach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/blog\/don-and-delayna-beattie\/the-spiritual-meaning-of-music-for-bach\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spiritual Meaning Of Music For Bach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Johann Sebastian Bach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>German Composer (1685-1750)<\/p>\n<p>Writings from Bach\u2019s World by Jan Chiapusso, Indiana University Press, 1968<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMusic held an essentially spiritual meaning for Bach; it was a medium for reaching the depths of the soul\u2026During Bach\u2019s school years, music was treated as one of the most important faculties within education. Luther had attributed a semi-magical quality to music, the power to convey ideas, to steer the will, to fortify faith. This evaluation of music can be traced back to Pythagoras and Plato, who considered musical training, \u2018a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony (melody, in the ancient sense) find their way into the inward places of the soul\u2019\u2026The art of music was not the work of man, but a \u2018most wonderful and glorious gift of God, which had the power to drive out Satan and to resist temptations and evil thoughts.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018I give, after theology, music the nearest locum and highest honor,\u2019 Luther wrote of his school curriculum. The word locus in medieval school language is equivalent to a division in the plan of learning, but Luther used the term in its ancient sense of place, or classroom. The far-reaching influence of this conception upon the subsequent development and the idealistic character of German music can hardly be underestimated. Without this vision of music as a spiritual power the world would never have known the genius of Bach and Beethoven.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johann Sebastian Bach German Composer (1685-1750) Writings from Bach\u2019s World by Jan Chiapusso, Indiana University Press, 1968 \u201cMusic held an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1027,"featured_media":163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-don-and-delayna-beattie","tag-bach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}