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135: MUSIC |
“Music, as one of the arts, is a natural cultural development,
and the Guardian does not feel that there should be any
cultivation of ‘Bahá’í Music’ any more than we are trying to
develop a Bahá’í school of painting or writing. The believers
are free to paint, write or compose as their talents guide them.
If music is written incorporating the Sacred Writings, the
friends are free to make use of it, but it should never be considered
a requirement at Bahá’í meetings to have such music. The
farther away the friends keep from any set forms, the better,
for they must realize that the Cause is absolutely universal, and
what might seem a beautiful addition to their mode of celebrating
a Feast, etc., would perhaps fall on the ears of people of
another country as unpleasant sounds—and vice versa. As long
as they have music for its own sake it is all right, but they
should not consider it ‘Bahá’í Music’.”
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