GA 281

The Art of Recitation and Declamation

Die Kunst der Rezitation und Deklamation

Three lectures Dornach 1920, with examples of texts. Four lectures in Dornach, Darmstadt, Vienna and Stuttgart 1921 to 1923, with examples. Seminar by Marie Steiner, January/February 1928, with numerous examples of practice. Seven speeches at recitation events from the years 1912 to 1915.

Contents (selection)

Contoured and formless words and their synthesis in plastic-musical speech / Intimacies of the artistic sense of style. Poetry, a language of the gods / The connections between recitation and declamation and the artistically formed breath / Decline and construction / The art of oral recitation / From the sensual-meaningful to the spiritual-moved / The sensation of form in poetry and recitation / Syllabic sounds and word-speech

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Poetry and the Art of Speech. 'CW 281. Translated by J. Wedgwood and Andrew Welburn. London School of Speech Formation 1982. ISBN 0-85440-407-4

German

• Rudolf Steiner: Die Kunst der Rezitation und Deklamation, GA 281 (1987), ISBN 3-7274-2810-4 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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