Eurythmy Performance

GA 277d/1923-07-08/p006 ·1923-07-08 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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Language is, first and foremost, the expression of what human beings draw from the depths of their souls and communicate externally with the help of their organic tools. If one considers language and singing insofar as they are expressions of human soul life, one comes to see singing, first of all, as a more differentiated external manifestation of human soul life than language, namely civilized language. Language imprints meaning onto sound, and in doing so becomes sound. Sound is the tone that carries meaning or significance. However, because meaning, significance, that is, thought, enters into sound, language takes on an inartistic character.

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