Eurythmy as Visible Singing & A Companion to Eurythmy as Visible Singing -- Two Volume Set [Dornach, 19 - 27, February, 1924]

Churton House, Audnam, Stourbridge, England: The Anderida Music Trust, 1998. 1998 latest date at copyright page. Complete 2 volume set. Scarce fourth edition of these Steiner lectures held in February 1924 on eurhythmia. Bright red linen cloth boards, gilt cover and spine titles, light shelf wear. Deckled pages fine; no writing. Instructive handwritten notes of Steiner, artwork, drawings, diagrams and scarce photos of Steiner. Binds fine, square; hinges intact. Vintage sepia postcard of Steiner set in to volume one. Substantial high quality book craftsmanship. Rare near fine fourth edition set with a new translation from The Anderida Music Trust. Presented here is Steiner's Eurhythmy as Visible Singing in a cycle of lectures given at Dornach from February 19th to 27th, 1924. Contents of Volume I: "Foreword by Dorothea Mier; Translator's Preface and Acknowledgement; Introduction to the Third English Edition; Rudolf Steiner on the Tone-Eurythmy Lecture-course; The Lectures: 1. The Experience of Major and Minor (Dornach, Tuesday, February 19); 2. Experience and Gesture: The Intervals (Dornach, Wednesday, Feb. 20); 3. Melodic Movement: The Ensouling of the Three Dimensions Through Pitch, Rhythm and Beat (Thurday, Feb. 21); 4. The Progression of Musical Phrases; Swinging-over; The Bar Line (Friday, Feb. 24); Choral Eurythmy (Saturday, Feb. 23); 6. The Sustained Note; the Rest; Discords (Monday, Feb. 25); 7. Musical Physiology; the Point of Departure; Intervals; Cadences (Tuesday, Feb. 26); 8. Pitch (Ethos and Pathos), Note Values, Dynamics; Changes of Tempo (Wednesday, Feb. 27); Rudolf Steiner's Personal Lecture Notes: Facsimile/Transcription/English Translation; and, an Index to the Lectures." Contents of Volume II: "Compiler's Preface; Notes to the Lectures; Notes to Lectures 1 through 8; Appendices: 1. Nature and Art; 2. The Artist Between East and West; 3. 'The Character of Each Individual Key'; 4. TAO: i. The Tradition; ii. 'An Esoteric Intermezzo'; iii. Rudolf Steiner, Torquay 1922.8.24; iv. A Note on the Bar Line; 5. The Angle-gestures; 6. Live Music, Recorded Sound and Eurythmy; 7. ALP-Elf: i. Esoteric Tradition; ii. 'A Remarkable Tradition'; iii. The Point of Departure - A Note for Artists; 8. GA278, [the collected Lectures of 'Eurythmy As Visible Singing'] as an Esoteric Document." "Man is a form proceeding out of movement. Eurhythmy is a continuation of divine movement, of the divine form in man. By means of Eurhythmy man approaches nearer the divine than he otherwise could." Eurythmy, or eurhythmy, is the art of articulating movement originated by Marie von Sivers and Rudolf Steiner in the early twentieth century. The word derives from Greek roots meaning beautiful or harmonious rhythm. It was also integral in the Gurdjieff movements, a system of movement developed by G. I. Gurdjieff and Jeanne de Salzmann. Etymologically eurythmic or eurhythmic, originates from "harmonious," 1831, from Greek eurythmia "rhythmical order," from eurythmos "rhythmical, well-proportioned," from eu "well, good" (see eu-) + rhythmos "measured flow or movement, rhythm; proportion, symmetry." Eurythmics (also eurhythmics), is a "system of rhythmical body movement to music, used as therapy or to teach musical understanding," developed by Swiss music educator Émile Jaques-Dalcroze developed in the early 1900s. 169 and 199 pages. Insured post.. Fourth Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.