The Dionysian Course III

GA 277a/1912-09-18/p023 ·1912-09-18 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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“Once you have become accustomed to the sounds, you will experience something o-like in every shortness and something i-like in every length as a physical sensation.” This second type could already be performed by an accompanying choir in an artistic performance. — I should perhaps apologize for having described this seemingly “insignificant matter” in such detail. However, it should be shown that there is no arbitrary movement in eurythmy, that even the seemingly “most insignificant” has been drawn out of the forces and measures of the human organization.

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