Sri Aurobindo on Music - from the Letters

- Is Music Superior to Other Arts?
- Music Goes Direct to the Intuition
- Importance of Music in Education
- Rhythm and Movement
- Significance of Metrical Rhythm in the Mantra
- Can Music be Admitted as a Part of Life of Yoga?
- The Outer Singer Should Disappear
- Forget the Audience

Poetry with Musical References

Some References to Music from Savitri

   
 

Music Goes Direct to the Intuition

It is perhaps true that music goes direct to the intuition and feeling with the least necessity for the using of the thinking mind with its strongly limiting conceptions as a self-imposed middleman, while painting and sculpture do need it and poetry still more. At that rate music would come first, architecture next, then sculpture and painting, poetry last.

 
- Sri Aurobindo