{"product_id":"music-rudolf-steiner-9781855845268","title":"Music: Mystery, Art and the Human Being","description":"\"Our neurosensory system is inwardly configured music, and we experience music as an artistic quality to the degree that a piece of music is in tune with the mystery of our own musical structure\" --\u003cb\u003eRudolf Steiner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is music? Steiner regards the essence of music as spiritual and inaudible to the senses. The world of tones, carried on vibrations of air, is not the essence. \"The true nature of music, the spiritual element in music,\" he says, \"is found between the tones, in the intervals as an inaudible quality.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteiner spoke repeatedly of music as inherent in the cosmos and in human beings. It played an important role in many forms of ritual and worship, and people once perceived a link between music and starry realm, which was seen as the home of the gods. Today our view of music is divorced from such religious perspectives, but research repeatedly demonstrates the profound effects it continues to have on us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this unique anthology of texts, compiled with a commentary and notes by Michael Kurtz, Steiner describes the realm of spiritually resonating harmonies of the spheres and our intrinsic connection to that cosmic music. He also explores the phenomenon of musical listening and experience, as well as Goethe's approach to music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in German as \u003ci\u003eDie Welt der Musik\u003c\/i\u003e (Rudolf Steiner Verlag, 2012).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rudolf Steiner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1855845261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781855845268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rudolf Steiner Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/08\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.70d","brand":"Rudolf Steiner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939023716607,"sku":"9781855845268","price":19.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ca868b94-af1c-42e8-b050-6a17464c5404.jpg?v=1681439046","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/music-rudolf-steiner-9781855845268","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}