How can music and the body relate to each other? This volume highlights the music-related experience and understanding as a fundamental or overarching phenomenon across various body-related scientific disciplines for the first time. Through concrete examples from dance science and dance education, musicology and music psychology, general music education and instrumental pedagogy, as well as anthropology and music ethnology, the interplay between practical-sensory representation and theoretical reflection is addressed, which is inherent in the concepts of "experience" and "understanding.".