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


The Musical Experience
of the Almighty Creative Force
of the Harmony


 
This level of knowl­edge char­ac­ter­izes our mu­si­cal in­sight into the worlds of the se­quence.
Be­cause now we real­ize that, as if by a se­cret spell, the mu­si­cal forces of the in­di­vid­ual un­fold­ment – the mo­tifs – are held to­gether from within by other forces of a higher or­der – by forces more pow­er­ful than even the mo­tifs them­selves.

 
In the World of the Musical Sequences
And by iden­tifying step by step with these new, higher forces, we gradu­ally ex­peri­ence the source of power of those se­quence-forces; we ex­peri­ence the al­mighty crea­tive power of the har­mony.

 
We cog­nize how that in­fi­nite stream of en­ergy of the har­mony per­me­ates the se­quences with life and thereat, crea­tively ex­pands to­wards the mo­tifs.
And as we di­rect our at­ten­tion natu­rally to­wards the source of that stream, we per­ceive the har­mony it­self.
In the har­mony we then dis­cover the seed image of the en­tire outer mu­sic; and we no­tice that the outer mu­sic in the se­quence-spaces, in the motif-spaces, and in the mu­si­cal sound-space are but a re­flec­tion of the dy­namic mu­si­cal move­ment within the realm of the har­mony.

 
The Musical Stream of Energy of the Harmony
And in that moment – with­out really think­ing about it – we have reached the field of pure self-knowl­edge.

 
The Seed Image of All Music in Pure Self-Knowledge
Step by step, the sys­tem­atic se­quence of our natu­ral, mu­si­cal con­clu­sions has brought us, the cog­ni­zant mu­sic lis­ten­ers, into the sphere of cre­at­ing mu­sic from where, as we now wit­ness, all mu­sic flows forth like from an in­ex­hausti­ble spring.

 
The Infinite Source of Music
In mu­sic, there­fore, the art of draw­ing con­clu­sions is the pre­req­ui­site for any gain­ing knowl­edge.
This ap­plies to the crea­tor of mu­sic, as well as to the mu­sic lis­tener.

 
The Art of Deduction as the Key of Gaining Knowledge in Music
And as it turns out, this art of mu­si­cal deduc­tion is also the pre­req­ui­site to gain uni­ver­sally hu­man knowl­edge in mu­sic.

 
The art of deduc­tion brings the mu­sic lis­tener quite natu­rally into the realms of in­creas­ingly higher mu­si­cal or­ders and thus sys­tem­ati­cally into the fields of in­creas­ingly higher mu­si­cal knowl­edge.

 
The Safe Path into the Worlds of Higher Order in Music
Here, the skill of the mu­si­cal crea­tor lies in train­ing his lis­tener in the art of mu­si­cal deduc­tion – to show him the ver­ti­cal path into the depth of genu­ine mu­si­cal knowl­edge, and so to set an ex­ample for the mu­sic lis­tener by walk­ing this path of knowl­edge him­self.

 
The Vertical Path towards Genuine Musical Knowledge
Any hori­zon­tal kind of mu­si­cal pseudo-con­clu­sion, as prac­tised to­day in the con­ven­tional sys­tem of mu­si­cal analy­sis, can only lead to pseudo-knowl­edge.
This arises from false deduc­tion – and also from com­pletely unprac­ti­cal deduc­tion.

 
The Unworldly Path of Unmusical Gaining Knowledge
These il­lu­sory con­clu­sions do not at all lead the lis­tener into fields of higher mu­si­cal knowl­edge; they keep him in the field of the mu­si­cal sound-space, that space where the proc­ess of the mu­si­cal gain­ing knowl­edge ac­tu­ally ends.

 
This cor­re­sponds to some­one counting the grain in­stead of put­ting it into the soil and allowing it to grow.

 
The proc­ess of draw­ing con­clu­sions in mu­sic is al­ways di­rected to­wards know­ing a higher mu­si­cal mean­ing; it leads into the depth of mu­sic – to­wards the natu­ral source of mu­sic – and sys­tem­ati­cally raises the mu­sic lis­tener to the status of a mu­sic crea­tor.

 
The Purpose of Drawing Conclusions in Music