the purpose driven music paradigm - Escape Babylon's Demons

The scriptures testify to instrumental music’s power to influence emotions in ways
both beneficial and harmful to people. If we conclude hat instrumental music isn’t
morally neutral, then we must admit that doesn’t love all types of music as the
Purpose Driven Music Paradigm teaches.
Music is the universal science used to create emotion
The origin of the word music comes from Greek word mousike. The Greek word
mousa applies to development from a principle, to every sphere of activity where the
spirit passes from potency to act and clothes itself in a sensible form. Music
combines words determining ideas (poetry); melody communicating sentiment and
rhythm characterizing expression. Music separated from poetry is like a soul without
a body. Poetry gives clarity to the thoughts and emotions expressed by music. Poetry
and music should work together as ministers of thought.
All the ancient sages of worldly wisdom such as Pythagoras, Zoroaster, Confucius,
Plato believed instrumental music was the universal science to be used to create
emotion. Interestingly, the same belief is echoed today by the guru of the purpose
driven music paradigm, Rick Warren. Warren has capitalized upon the emotional
power of music in order to increase church attendance.
Professionally trained musicians like Dr. Max Schoen point out the following:
“music is the most powerful stimulus known among the perceptive senses. The medical, psychiatric
and other evidence for the non-neutrality of music is so overwhelming that it frankly amazes me that
anyone should seriously say otherwise. (Dr. Max Schoen, The Psychology of Music, 1940)
Dr. Howard Hanson, an American composer, conductor , teacher and a Director of the
Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester wrote in the American Journal
of Psychiatry, Volume 99, page 317:
“music is a curiously subtle art with innumerable, varying emotional connotations. It is made up of
many ingredients and, according to the proportions of these c omponents, it can be soothing or
invigorating, ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers for evil as w ell as for
good.” ( Quoted from “A Musician’s Point of View Toward Emotional Expression” at the 98 th annual
meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, 1942)
Leonard Bernstein is quoted in Newsweek, October, 29, 1990, page 79 saying :
“music is something terribly special…it doesn’t have to pass through the sensor of the brain before it
can reach the heart…an F-sharp doesn’t have to be considered in the mind; it is a direct hit, and
therefore, all the more powerful.”
Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys is quoted regarding the persuasive power of
instrumental music as recorded on page 210 of the “The Rock Story by Jerry Hopkins