{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 301/1920-05-06/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Nearly everyone knows what a melody is and what a sentence is. But a sentence that consists of a subject, a predicate, and an object and which is in reality unconsciously a melody is something that only a few people know. Just as we experience the rising and subsiding of feelings as a rhythm in sleeping, which we then become conscious of and surround with a picture, we also, in the depths of our nature, experience a sentence as music. By conforming to the outer world, we surround what we perceive as music with something that is a picture. The child writes the essay—subject, predicate, object. A triplet is felt at the deepest core of the human being. That triplet is used through projecting the first tone in a certain way upon the child, the second upon writing, and the third upon the essay. Just as these three are felt and then surrounded with pictures (which, however, correspond to reality and are not felt as they are in dreams), the sentence lives in our higher consciousness; whereas in our deepest unconsciousness, something musical, a melody, lives. When we are aware that, at the moment we move from the sense-perceptible to the supersensible, we must rid ourselves of the sense-perceptible content, and in its place experience what eludes us in music—the theme whose real form we can experience in sleep—only then can we consider the human being as a whole. Only then do we become genuinely aware of what it means to teach language to children in such a living way that the child perceives a trace of melody in a sentence. This means we do not simply speak in a dry way, but instead in a way that gives the full tone, that presents the inner melody and subsides through the rhythmic element.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XI. Rhythm in Education","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-05-06","location":null,"word_count":303,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/301/1920-05-06/p024","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Ruth Pusch and Gertrude Teutsch","identified_edition":"AP2001","book_title":"The Renewal of Education","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA301/English/AP2001/19200506d01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Daß aber ein Satz, der aus Subjekt, Prädikat, Objekt besteht, in Wirklichkeit im Unbewußten eine Melodie ist, das wissen eben die wenigsten Menschen. Geradeso, wie man sich vergegenwärtigen kann, daß dasjenige, was als Anschwellen und Abklingen der Gefühle als Gefühlskurve erlebt wird im Schlafe, sich heraufbegibt ins Bewußtsein, sich umkleidet mit dem Bilde, so erleben wir in den Tiefen unseres Wesens den Satz musikalisch. Und indem wir uns an die Außenwelt anpassen, umkleiden wir das musikalisch Empfundene mit dem, was plastisches Bild ist. »Das Kind schreibt die Aufgabe« - Subjekt - Prädikat - Objekt. Im Innersten des Menschen wird empfunden ein Dreiklang. Dasjenige, was innerlichst empfunden wird, ist ein Dreiklang. Dieser Dreiklang, der wird angewendet, indem man den ersten Ton gewissermaßen hinausprojiziert auf das Kind, den zweiten Ton hinprojiziert auf das Schreiben, den dritten Ton hinprojiziert auf die Aufgabe. Und so wie diese drei empfunden werden und sich dann umkleiden mit den Bildern, die aber jetzt der Realität entsprechen — nicht wie beim Traum empfunden wird -, so lebt in unserem Oberbewußtsein der Satz, in unserem untersten Unterbewußtsein ein Musikalisches, eine Melodie. Und sind wir uns dessen bewußt, daß wir eigentlich in dem Augenblicke, wo wir vom Sinnlichen ins Übersinnliche kommen, abstreifen müssen den sinnlichen Inhalt und für den sinnlichen Inhalt dasjenige erleben, was uns gerade die Musik entzieht, das Thematische, das ja in seiner Gestaltung in Wirklichkeit im Schlafe erfahren wird; sind wir uns dessen bewußt, dann erst betrachten wir den Menschen wie eine Ganzheit.Dann werden wir erst gewahr, was es eigentlich bedeutet, wenn wir mit dem Kinde lebendig so Sprachlehre treiben, daß wir wenigstens noch eine Spur des melodiösen Elementes im Satze zurücklassen, das heißt, daß wir nicht trocken prosaisch sprechen, sondern daß wir hier in dem Satze noch etwas Rezitatorisches haben, etwas Volltönendes haben, etwas von dem inneren melodiösen Elemente und auch von dem rhythmischen Elemente Nachklingendes haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":327,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/301/1920-05-06/p017"}],"english":["GA 301/1920-05-06/p024"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":327,"en_words":303,"ratio":0.93,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.95,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5380,"original_word_count":5691,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Ruth Pusch and Gertrude Teutsch","identified_edition":"AP2001","book_title":"The Renewal of Education","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA301/English/AP2001/19200506d01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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