Communicative Musicality or Stories of Truth and Beauty in the Sound of Moving

Abstract

In half a century, micro-analysis with the aid of film and television, of how infants move their many parts with grace and intelligence from birth, especially how a baby displays and directs their movements to “attune” with the movements of the mother as a human companion, so that intentions, interests and feelings may be shared, has led psychologists to change their idea of the nature of the mind. Inherent “musical” powers of life with an inner sense of time drive our consciousness of being. Human playfulness is a special animal vitality that seeks to compose imaginative projects of awareness into artful narratives, give feelings of messages in song and dance to even the most practical tasks. They guide the representative powers of language to describe and store the conventional beliefs and explanations of culture. This is an important change for science of awareness with emotion, one which finds antecedents in aesthetics and phenomenological and moral philosophy, and that has importance for theory and practice in education and psychotherapy.

Keywords

• cognitive sciences
• sound
• interaction
• emotions
• semiogenesis