ABSTRACT
In the last chapter we briefly considered music and its meaning within the tones themselves, and how music could be said to have a deep dynamic structure which we may experience within many layers of our listening to music. For example, Mrs Munt’s tapping of the fingers while listening to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony at a concert would be experiencing music at a level which engages the physical body in movement. Another layer would be the imaginative layer, like Helen who sees pictures in the music, or there is a layer which associates music with particu lar people and places. However, there is yet another layer which can be described as the seemingly unfathomable place of flowing sensation of the ‘away from’ and ‘towards’ dynamic motion that Margaret in Howards End is described as experien cing when she is said to ‘see only the music’.
