33. Eurythmy Performance

GA 277c/1921-05-05/p009 ·1921-05-05 · 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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Now one can say: Nevertheless, it can be clearly perceived, especially in the original languages, that a certain ability is present in man to inwardly experience the sound itself. By practicing in a musical and vocal way, one withdraws from the sound to the mere tone. And the question arises: how can we bring to external manifestation that which does not flow from the external world into language and kills the tone, the sound, pushing it into the grammatical?

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