Glossary

The Octave in Anthroposophy

The octave in Anthroposophy is the interval Rudolf Steiner treated as the soul meeting its own self on a higher rung, the one interval where the eighth tone merges with...

Tone Eurythmy in Anthroposophy

Tone eurythmy is the musical side of the movement-art Rudolf Steiner developed, in which the inner experience of a piece of music is carried over into the gestures of arms,...

Major and Minor in Anthroposophy

Major and Minor in Anthroposophy are the two soul-moods that music gained when the interval of the third entered human hearing during the fourth post-Atlantean epoch. Major turns the soul...

Sculpture and the Plastic Arts in Anthroposophy

Sculpture and the plastic arts, in Steiner's spiritual science, are the form-giving crafts through which the invisible forces that shaped the human body become visible again in wood, clay and...

The Experience of Tone in Anthroposophy

The experience of tone is what Rudolf Steiner described as the listener's inner meeting with a single musical note. He taught that a tone is not heard the way a...

The Inner Nature of Music in Anthroposophy

The inner nature of music, in Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy, names the hidden source of melody and harmony. Behind every audible note stands an archetypal tone the soul hears during sleep,...