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So-called 'church music' training at SBTS

Discussion in 'Baptist Colleges & Seminaries' started by Jerome, Aug 11, 2019.

  1. Jerome

    Jerome Well-Known Member
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    The Pathetic State of Music at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

    "The School of Music at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary was once a leading training program for church musicians, but it was shuttered in 2009...Education in church music has supposedly continued under the 'School of Church Ministries', but a glance at their degree plan indicates otherwise."

    "This program is not a degree in church music, whatever it’s called. It is nothing more than lessons in how to lead a Sunday morning house cover band"

    Courses in "'vocal ensemble leadership'....'worship band techniques.' This is not actual church music. This is pure pop worship. And if this is really what interests you, you can learn how to do this by playing at a local watering hole with some aging barefoot boomers."

    "you’re expected to achieve some competency in an instrument. That’s pretty normal. So, voice or organ, right? Nope. SBTS wants you to take some kind of 'worship band lab' course. Your choices are guitar, keys (not piano or organ, but “keyboard”), bass guitar, or drum set."

    "Mostly, the whole church music part is missing. There is, again, no organ study,...no choral lit for the church, no rigor in any historic field of sacred musical study. There is apparently no real in-depth interaction with the history of sacred music"



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    "Each generation appears as "rebellious" and their music seems to go before the marching rebels" Anonymous.
     
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    Why is church music education declining in Baptist colleges and seminaries? Does it have to do with the popularity of praise bands? Trend to focus the service on the big screen? Increasing distance to the sacred music of the past? Or something else?
     
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    More than likely, a desire to make the church more like the world in offering entertainment rather than actual worship.
     
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    IMO most church music touches the soul - a lofty endeavor, not evil or sinful.

    But rare the music which stirs the human spirit to worship in Spirit and in Truth.
     
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    Change is not necessarily bad.
     
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