Speech and DramaSteinerBooks, 2007 M10 24 - 418 pages 19 lectures, Dornach, April 10, 1921 and September 5-23, 1924 (CW 282) This course was designed for students and professionals in the stage arts and given in the Section for the Arts of Speech and Music School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum. Rudolf Steiner begins with a fundamental and spiritually-rooted appreciation of human speech and what actually takes place during human communication. Speech is a spiritual activity as well as an art form, lending itself to real interaction with both higher spiritual worlds and the human world of social conversation. Steiner shows that speech is a powerful tool for any serious dramatist in conveying the reality of worlds, whether visible or invisible, to the individual souls in the audience. This is an essential book for anyone involved in speech work, communication arts, and many kinds of therapies. This volume is a translation from German of Sprachgestaltung und Dramatische Kunst (GA 282). |
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... must learn to understand in hearing , instead of hearing in understanding . The vowel reflects an experience of the soul within ; the consonant the striving of the soul to imitate - in the page form of the sound - a process or object 14.
Rudolf Steiner. page form of the sound - a process or object outside . Sound pictures and word pictures . Sound - shifting , and the changes that words undergo . 10th September , 1924. 120 Lecture 7. SOME PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ...
... object or theme that exists only in thought . For the speaker of drama , the ' object ' of his speaking is present in its full reality , the person he addresses is standing there in front of him . There then you have the distinguishing ...
... object that is not seen but thought , and by means of the magic that lies in his speech he is continually ' citing ' this object . The artist of the epic is pre - eminently a ' re - citer ' . So here we have recitation . The speaker of ...
... object or event , he gives himself up to that object or event , he lets himself go . For how is the sound a made ? What does it consist in ? A requires the whole organism of speech to be opened wide , beginning from the mouth . Man lets ...