Saturday 25 March 2017

MUSICAL SYMBOLISN

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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