Episode 339: Fine Arts Part 2, Music Appreciation
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Nicole Williams
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
How do you feel about classical music? Like art, music is a language in itself that conveys thoughts and ideas that words alone cannot. Charlotte Mason recognized this and included musical appreciation in her curriculum as knowledge that was due to all children. Join us in today's podcast and get inspired to begin your own musical education if you haven't already.

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| 0:00.0 | How do you feel about classical music? Like art, music is a language in itself that conveys thoughts and ideas that words alone cannot. |
| 0:10.4 | Charlotte Mason recognized this and included musical appreciation in her curriculum as knowledge that was due to all children. |
| 0:17.9 | Join us today and get inspired to begin your own musical education if you haven't |
| 0:22.1 | already. Looking for a composition and literature course that is fully online and follows the |
| 0:27.8 | Charlotte Mason method for the upper forms, it does exist. Find more information and check out |
| 0:33.6 | the course offerings for the upcoming school year at living literature.net. |
| 0:39.1 | Space is limited, so move swiftly to secure a spot for your student. |
| 0:43.5 | Welcome to a delectable education, the podcast that spreads the feast of the Charlotte Mason Method. |
| 0:48.2 | I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here with Nicole Williams. |
| 0:51.3 | And Liz Katrille. |
| 0:53.0 | Just as art communicates in a language without words, so music conveys ideas to us in a medium that is entirely its own. |
| 1:03.9 | Charlotte Mason realized that music might give great joy and interest to the life of all people. |
| 1:10.1 | And that just as children who are educated in |
| 1:13.8 | Charlotte Mason's methods are given the greatest literature and art so they should have the |
| 1:19.2 | greatest music as well. The greatest classical music is an acquired taste to many of us. |
| 1:25.9 | One that can be trained from a young age, however. And Nicole, |
| 1:30.7 | can you tell us a little bit about what this looks like in a child's education? And maybe your own, |
| 1:35.8 | too. Yeah. Well, I thought that our last episode was very easy, but this one I think is even easier |
| 1:41.9 | for me to explain. Music appreciation started in form one, |
| 1:47.1 | and it's the same all the way through with the addition of something later, but it is truly just |
| 1:53.6 | listening to music, but the same way with artist study that we had one composer each term, |
| 1:59.7 | and we listened to various pieces or we looked |
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