The Inner Nature of Music and the Experience of Tone: Selected Lectures from the Work of Rudolf Steiner (CW 283)

The Inner Nature of Music taps into esoteric ideas regarding the point and purpose of musical expression and its affects on the performer as well as the listener. Not an easy read, however, well worth the effort to comprehend Steiner's thinking and research. I found the book tremendously insightful as a practicing pianist. If you are looking for an "unaccredited view" of music, this is your salvation!

An excellent book. However, I would only recommend this book to those who are familiar with Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy - those who have read and absorbed the content of his "basic" books: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and It's Attainment; Theosophy; An Outline of Occult Science; and Christianity as Mystical Fact. A very worthwhile pursuit!Also, a knowledge of music to begin with is helpful, but not essential.

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Many thanks fro the quick recieving of book. It will be loved and appreciated.

One of his books. Where other works claim to reveal the metaphysical nature of sound and music this one actually delivers. It takes the subject deeper than you might expect and this from direct personal experience. I recommend it highly.

Some great ideas, but he really sounds like a genius on acid...

This seemed somewhat complicated and I failed to find the data I was searching for when I purchased the book.

incisive and perfect. As a musician who has played from Jacksonville FL to New York City, I found Steiner's insights to be dead-on.

Ich schätze Rudolf Steiner als genialen Menschen, der uns vieles als Geschenke vermacht hat. Für alle, die mehr über die inneren Welten wissen möchten, ein richtiges Kleinod. Danke.