Musical Symbolization
If images are “full of muscles,” music is even more obviously kinesthetic. In
considering enactive repre sen ta tion we have already had occasion to notice
that rhythm is characteristic of bodily life and that early on it gets expressed
musically and in the dance. Music, if we may say so, reaches right into the
body. Indeed, music without some bodily response is hard to imagine: I am
always amazed at the stillness of impassive audiences listening to Bach or
Vivaldi, with only a very occasional head moving
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