Human sound carries
all of life within it. The earliest people understood
this truth when they developed the first names of
people, experiences and things. They knew then that a
name was not just a separate description. It was a
reenactment of the unique spiritual and physical
qualities of the wave, the tree or the snake. The
sounds chosen held the essential qualities of the
thing itself.
Though we may not
be as aware as our ancestors of this reality, it
remains true that the human voice is one of the most
remarkable of instruments. It has the capacity to
transform our inner experiences into another medium,
sound. When the sounds of language and song are
intoned, they set into motion, unique, yet invisible
gestures through the air. Artistically expressed they
reveal the specific gestures belonging to each
consonant or vowel, each musical tone or interval.
These innate forms living in sound, within our souls
and in the world become the basis for the art form of
eurythmy. ~~
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