Music & Singing

Music and singing hold a unique place in anthroposophic culture, where music is understood not merely as an arrangement of sound but as a direct expression of the spiritual world. Rudolf Steiner described music as the art most closely connected to the human “I” and gave foundational lectures on the inner experience of intervals, scales, and keys that have shaped a distinctive approach to musical education, composition, and therapeutic practice.

This collection of approximately 80 titles includes Steiner’s The Inner Nature of Music and the Experience of Tone (GA 283), Alan Stott’s research on the relationship between music and eurythmy, and practical guides to the Choroi instrument tradition — pentatonic flutes, lyres, and other instruments designed for young children’s musical development in Waldorf schools. Additional works address choral singing, the major and minor modes, the evolution of musical consciousness from ancient Greece to the present, and the therapeutic application of specific intervals. Titles on music pedagogy for Waldorf class teachers and early childhood educators are also represented.

For the relationship between music and movement, see the Eurythmy category. Those interested in recorded performances and spoken-word audio will find relevant titles in Sound & Audio.