. Dancing with Helen Moller; her own statement of her philosophy and practice and teaching formed upon the classic Greek model, and adapted to meet the aesthetic and hygienic needs of to-day, with forty-three full page art plates;. ly depicting thebeauties of a summer sunrise or the horrors of a battle-field. That old fallacy was due to a misconception ofthe nature of the mental stimulus provided by manifes-tations of an art whose direct appeal is to the emotionsonly—and to the suggestion contained in the absurdstatements formerly printed in concert programmesthat such a number described a sun
. Dancing with Helen Moller; her own statement of her philosophy and practice and teaching formed upon the classic Greek model, and adapted to meet the aesthetic and hygienic needs of to-day, with forty-three full page art plates;. ly depicting thebeauties of a summer sunrise or the horrors of a battle-field. That old fallacy was due to a misconception ofthe nature of the mental stimulus provided by manifes-tations of an art whose direct appeal is to the emotionsonly—and to the suggestion contained in the absurdstatements formerly printed in concert programmesthat such a number described a sunrise and such anothernumber the battle of Austerlitz. Reading the pro-gramme, and while under the emotional influences of themusic, no room was left for doubt! But music does, always has and always will, morethan any other single influence, perform the invaluableservice of obliterating consciousness of self. The sumtotal of all the other inhibitions that stand in the way oftruthful and convincing expression of mind or emotiondo not equal the handicap of dominant self-conscious- Seventy-one Showing the facility with which children form impromptu ensembles, aswhen music calls for a combination of individual Music: Twin Sister of the Dance ness. It turns the mind inward upon itself, upon thebody, the hands, the feet, the dress, evoking vanity orparalyzing with doubts and trepidations; the free mindthat had the universe for its field of contemplation, andwas capable of solving every finite problem, is enslavedto its unimportant envelope and can express nothing butinefficiency. Good music almost instantly sets the mind freethrough its powerful action upon the emotions which be-long to the sub-consciousness, the naked, potent ego con-stituting the real man or woman. Having accomplishedthis first essential, it marvellously stimulates the facultyof imagination. The mind leaps toward its ideal andits processes are clarified and quickened. Even the sim-ple melodies pl
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