Music, silence, and the order of Creation
In this lecture, Ken Myers explains how it is that our participation in harmonic beauty in music is a kind of participation in the life of God, in Whom all order and beauty coheres and is sustained. (61 minutes)
Music and the meaning of Creation
In this 2018 lecture, Ken Myers advocates for a recovery of the pre-Enlightenment idea of the intelligibility of music. (61 minutes)
Counterpoint as a “spirited discussion”
In this essay, John Ahern explains the beauty and order of counterpoint, the accumulation of multiple melodies that come together in a harmonious whole. (20 minutes)
How music reflects and continues the created order
Musician, composer, and teacher Greg Wilbur explores how music reflects the created order of the cosmos. (55 minutes)
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 123
FEATURED GUESTS:
Nicholas M. Healy, Christian Smith, James K. A. Smith, Esther Lightcap Meek, Richard Viladesau, and Jeremy Begbie
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 107
FEATURED GUESTS: Victor Lee Austin, Ellen T. Charry, Anthony Esolen, Ferdinand Schlingensiepen, Allen Verhey, and Calvin Stapert
Robert R. Riley: “The Music of the Spheres, or the Metaphysics of Music”
Robert R. Riley contrasts two sets of assumptions about music, and introduces two 20th-century composers who rejected the metaphysics of chaos in their compositions: the Danish composer Vagn Holmboe and the American John Adams. (43 minutes)