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The Inner Nature of Music and the Experience of Tone: Selected Lectures from the Work of Rudolf Steiner (CW 283) Paperback – August 13, 1983

by Rudolf Steiner (Author), Alice Wulsin (Editor), Maria St. Goar (Translator)
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7 lectures in various cities, December 3, 1906 – March 16, 1923 (CW 283)

"A tone is at the foundation of everything in the physical world."

This is one of many astonishing statements made by Rudolf Steiner in this collection of seven lectures on the inner realities of music. These lectures are an unusual treasure, since they are the only two groups of lectures that Steiner gave primarily on music, other than the lecture cycle for the tone eurythmy course, Eurythmy as Visible Music.

In the first group of three lectures, given in 1906, Steiner explains why music affects the human soul so powerfully. Music has always held a special position among the arts because it is the only art form whose archetype, or source, lies not in the physical world, as with architecture, sculpture, and painting, but purely in the spiritual world-the soul's true home. Music thus directly expresses through tones the innermost essence of the cosmos, and our sense of wellbeing when we hear music comes from a recognition of our soul's experience in the spiritual world.

In the remaining lectures, given in 1922 and 1923, Steiner discusses our experience of musical intervals and shows how it has undergone profound changes during the course of evolution. The religious effects of music in ancient times and the union of music with speech are considered, as well as the origin of musical instruments out of imaginations that accompanied singing. New insights are offered on the nature of the major and minor modes and on future directions of musical development.

“Major and minor keys, this strange bond between music and human subjectivity, the actual inner life of feeling―insofar as this life of feeling is bound to the earthly corporeality―came into being only in the course of the fourth post-Atlantean epoch and are related to the experience of the third. The difference between major and minor keys appears; the subjective soul element relates itself to the musical element.” ― Rudolf Steiner (lect. 5)

This volume is a translation of 7 lectures (of 8) in Das Wesen des Musikalischen und das Tonerlebnis im Menschen, published by Rudolf Steiner-Nachlaftverwaltung, Dornach, 1969 (GA 283).

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    108 pages
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    English
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    SteinerBooks
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    August 13, 1983
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    5.5 x 0.3 x 8.3 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0880100745
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0880100748
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Dr. Greg A. Grove
5.0 out of 5 stars Inner Nature of Music Revealed!
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The Inner Nature of Music taps into esoteric ideas regarding the point and purpose of musical expression and its affects on the performer as well as the listener. Not an easy read, however, well worth the effort to comprehend Steiner's thinking and research. I found the book tremendously insightful as a practicing pianist. If you are looking for an "unaccredited view" of music, this is your salvation!
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CathyAnn
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
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An excellent book. However, I would only recommend this book to those who are familiar with Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy - those who have read and absorbed the content of his "basic" books: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and It's Attainment; Theosophy; An Outline of Occult Science; and Christianity as Mystical Fact. A very worthwhile pursuit!

Also, a knowledge of music to begin with is helpful, but not essential.
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Richard Miller
5.0 out of 5 stars On of Rudolf Steiner's Best Books.
Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2015
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One of his books. Where other works claim to reveal the metaphysical nature of sound and music this one actually delivers. It takes the subject deeper than you might expect and this from direct personal experience. I recommend it highly.
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Brays
3.0 out of 5 stars Not sure what to think
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2019
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Some great ideas, but he really sounds like a genius on acid...
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silmnar
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful
Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2019
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Many thanks fro the quick recieving of book. It will be loved and appreciated.
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Terry Fugate
5.0 out of 5 stars amazing
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2013
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incisive and perfect. As a musician who has played from Jacksonville FL to New York City, I found Steiner's insights to be dead-on.
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Helga Lobinger
5.0 out of 5 stars Interessante Broschüre für Leute, die in die Tiefe gehen möchten....
Reviewed in Germany on June 9, 2015
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Ich schätze Rudolf Steiner als genialen Menschen, der uns vieles als Geschenke vermacht hat. Für alle, die mehr über die inneren Welten wissen möchten, ein richtiges Kleinod. Danke.
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