Music

At Agape Christi Academy, music is not an elective. Music is an essential part of worshiping the Triune God and right worship is an essential part of cultural transformation. Therefore, music is essential to cultural transformation. It is our goal then for all students to be musically literature, that is, to know how to sing, read music with their singing voice, and compose music with joy and skill.

Following the teaching philosophy of composer Zoltán Kodály, lower school students learn how to sing and read music through solmization (do, re, me, etc.), rhythm-duration syllables (counting rhythms by chanting), and the Curwen hand signs. Upper school students focus on musical analysis, composition, and performance. Students in all grades are introduced to the great composers of music and follow the course of music throughout history.

Six Biblical Reasons for Musically Literate Christians

The Lord commands that his people worship through song

Shout for joy to God, all the earth; sing the glory of his name; give to him glorious praise! Psalm 66:1-2

To encourage a culture of skilled praise in worship of the Triune God

Sing unto him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise. Psalm 33:3

To love one another through song

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Colossians 3:16

To model the lives of biblical men and women who were not professional musicians, yet composed music to the Lord.
  • Deborah Judges 5
  • Miriam Exodus 15:21
  • Hannah 1 Samuel 2:1-10
  • Mary Luke 1:46
  • Paul Philippians 2
  • Moses Deuteronomy 31:22
To sing in harmonized parts in the assembly of the saints, symbolizing the harmony we share

Live in harmony with one another. Romans 12:16

To fight the good fight of faith through worship

And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to the Lord and praise him in holy attire, as they went before the army, and say, “Give thanks to the Lord, for his steadfast love endures forever.” And when they began to sing and praise, the Lord set an ambush against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah, so that they were routed. 2 Chronicles 20:21-22 21