Music made visible in time and space : concepts of simultaneity in tone-eurythmy choreography

Sponheuer, Silke

Music made visible in time and space : concepts of simultaneity in tone-eurythmy choreography

Master Thesis

2009

Publisher

University of Cape Town

Department

College of Music

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Abstract

Eurythmy is an art of movement that expresses music and speech. This dissertation explores eurythmy's musical field, called tone-eurythmy, in its multifaceted appearances, background and within its philosophical context. Tone-eurythmy, carried out by performers moving in space and time, makes music visible. It transforms music into a new movement-art form, that of audible-visible music, by expressing musical components as well as the artistic intentions within a composition and those held by the performing artists. The dissertation examines how musical concepts are seen by eurythmists to integrate ideas of wholeness and to understand music as both audible and inaudible. It draws on studies and findings from music psychology to show distinct effects of musical elements on the human being, and to indicate the similarities between those and the qualitative expressions of music through tone-eurythmy.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-113).

Keywords

Choreography

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