Human Hearing and the Reality of Music
Human Hearing and the Reality of Music Music is not simply something we hear. If, as the pianist Alfred Brendel put it, that we are able to "take music at its word," we confront questions that also…
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Human Hearing and the Reality of Music
Music is not simply something we hear. If, as the pianist Alfred Brendel put it, that we are able to "take music at its word," we confront questions that also moved the author since his adolescent years: What takes hold of me when I experience music? We experience it and love it; it is a primal human need.
What happens physiologically in the human body when we experience and make music? What reality touches me when music is playing? The author approaches these questions from three perspectives: first, from his personal experience and active love of music; second, from the physiological perspective; and third, from Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science. Dr.
Husemann-author of The Harmony of the Human Body-shows how hearing is a sensory activity that encompasses far more than processes in the ear and brain, and that the whole body is involved. He also discusses the relationship between music
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