THE CLASSICAL COMPOSER AND MUSICOLOGIST PETER HÜBNER
on his International Project of the INTEGRATION OF SCIENCES & ARTS
 
NATURAL
MUSIC HEARING


OUVERTURE
CONVEYING TRUTH IN MUSIC


TEIL I
THE OBJECT OF GAINING KNOWLEDGE IN MUSIC


TEIL II
THE LOGIC OF THE MUSICAL FIELDS OF COGNITION


TEIL III
IMMORTAL AND MORTAL TRADITION OF MUSIC


TEIL IV
THE LIVING EXAMPLE OF THE MUSICAL COGNITION OF TRUTH


TEIL V
THE THREE GREAT STEPS OF THE MUSICAL PROCESS OF GAINING KNOWLEDGE


TEIL VI
THE SYSTEM OF INTELLECTUAL DISCUSSION IN MUSIC


TEIL VII
ERRORS IN GAINING KNOWLEDGE IN MUSIC


TEIL VIII
EQUIVOCATION


TEIL IX
THE SECRET OF MUSIC


TEIL X
THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF GAINING KNOWLEDGE IN MUSIC


TEIL XI
INDIRECT AND DIRECT GAINING KNOWLEDGE IN MUSIC


TEIL XII
THE PATH OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE GOAL OF TRUTH


Music and Philosophy
A Comparison


 
Like the sci­en­tific sys­tem of phi­loso­phy, mu­sic, too, distin-guishes be­tween the ob­jects of knowl­edge, the sub­ject which knows, and the proc­ess of know­ing which links the sub­ject and the ob­ject.

 
The Knower – the Object of Knowing – the Process of Knowing
The se­cret of the suc­cess of mu­sic – par­ticu­larly with the sim­ple man, but just as much with the com­pe­tent thinker – lies in the fact that mu­sic re­fines the struc­ture of the ob­ject un­der con­sid­era­tion in a dis­creet man­ner.

 
The Secret of Success of Music
We call it the ar­tis­tic form, but also in part: the in­ter­pre­ta­tion.

 
By means of this proc­ess of re­fine­ment, the mu­si­cian brings the ob­ject of con­sid­era­tion in a most dis­creet and unob­tru­sive man­ner closer and closer to us lis­ten­ers and to our self-aware­ness.

 
The Musical Process of Refinement of the Object of Cognition
And in his mu­sic he em­ploys the means of loving and pa­tient, elucidating and apolo­getic ex­plana­tion from the level of his heart.

 
Fi­nally, mu­sic ad­vances the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of the in­fi­nitely re­fined, re­sound­ing ob­ject of con­sid­era­tion with our self-aware­ness, and we per­ceive the ful­fill­ing unity of our in­ner truth with what pre­vi­ously ap­peared so sepa­rate from us – with the world, pre­vi­ously so es­tranged to us, with crea­tion which pre­vi­ously un­folded so in­de­pend­ent from us.

 
The Art of Musical Enlightenment
What makes mu­sic an ideal tool of com­pre­hen­sive phi­loso­phi­cal cog­niz­ing – as dif­fer­ent from the com­mon prac­tice of phi­loso­phiz­ing or sci­en­tifi­cally ana­lyz­ing in words and in writ­ing – is the fact that mu­sic is able to stimu­late our feel­ing and our un­der­stand­ing si­mul­ta­ne­ously to cog­ni­tion.

 
The Philosophical Gaining of Truth in Music
And since phi­loso­phy means “love of truth,” and since love is un­think­able with­out the feel­ing be­ing in­volved, we must as­sume that for phi­loso­phy, and be­yond that for any kind of com­pre­hen­sive ac­qui­si­tion of knowl­edge, mu­sic is a means of gain­ing knowl­edge more quali­fied than the com­mon prac­tice of verbal or writ­ten in­tel­lec­tual dis­cus­sion – ex­clud­ing poetry, for one thing, which is ca­pa­ble of stimu­lat­ing the feel­ing more than in­tel­lec­tual dis­cus­sion.