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


Immediate Knowledge
of the Musical Meaning


 
More­over, the per­cep­tion of the ab­so­lu­te sound-sub­stance stimu­lates our in­tel­lect, as well as our sense of hear­ing, to swing in this per­fect ba­sic vi­bra­tion of the har­mony, and it thus cre­ates a state of rest­ful alert­ness in these tools of our cog­ni­tion.

 
Restful Alertness in the Tools of Musical Cognition
This rest­ful alert­ness, in turn, en­ables our two­fold cog­niz­ing in­tel­lect, our feel­ing and un­der­stand­ing in­tel­lect, as well as our sense of hear­ing to di­rectly com­pre­hend and ex­peri­ence the mu­si­cal mean­ing.
It en­ables our tools of cog­ni­tion to ex­peri­ence the mu­si­cal proc­ess of de­vel­op­ment as a mani­fold unity on the level of the ab­so­lu­te Now i.e. with­out space and time and just as well within space and time i.e. in the rela­tive yes­ter­day, to­day, and to­mor­row.

 
But also the rest­ful alert­ness en­ables our tools of cog­ni­tion to view the mu­si­cal un­fold­ment of truth from a dis­tance, in that both our in­tel­lect and our sense of hear­ing per­ceive the rela­tive proc­ess of mu­si­cal un­fold­ment from their own, ele­vated fields of cog­ni­tion of the ab­so­lu­te Now, just as a diver watches the waves at the sur­face from the bot­tom of the ocean from the si­lence with­out be­ing af­fected by their roll and tumble.

 
The Distance of the Tools of Cognition to the Musical Evolution
Per­ceiv­ing the ba­sic vi­bra­tion of the ab­so­lu­te tone-sub­stance en­ables the mu­si­cal tools of cog­ni­tion to in­te­grate the deep si­lence and the to­tal enliv­en­ment, and only this in­te­gra­tion al­lows us lis­ten­ers to com­pre­hend the in­ner force-fields of mu­sic which do vibrate but which do not sound on a higher level of cog­ni­tion than that of the tone.

 
The Listener Perceives the Higher Force-Fields of Music
From our dis­cus­sion fol­lows how fun­da­men­tally im­por­tant it is that the ab­so­lu­te sound-sub­stance is enli­vened in the mu­si­cian and in the lis­tener on the level of their mu­si­cal tools of cog­ni­tion, if the one intends to ex­press truth in mu­sic and if the other intends to com­pre­hend it.

 
The Basis of Conveying Truth in Music
If this con­di­tion of such per­sonal per­cep­tion of the per­fect ba­sic vi­bra­tion of the ab­so­lu­te tone-sub­stance is not given then, natu­rally, the true in­sight into the mu­si­cal fields of knowl­edge re­mains ob­structed; for the mu­si­cian or the lis­tener draws from the mu­si­cal work only the as­pect of outer con­sump­tion of sounds or of physi­cal-emo­tional kinetother­apy but never the value of true mu­si­cal in­sight as is de­sired and ex­pected by the great clas­si­cal com­pos­ers.

 
Consumption of Sounds and Physical-Emotional Kinetotherapy
But even if the in­ter­preter is not aware of the phe­nome­non of the ab­so­lu­te tone-sub­stance, the lis­tener can by him­self derive the struc­ture of the ab­so­lu­te sound-sub­stance from the struc­ture of the in­ner logic of the mu­si­cal work.
And thus, he has it at his dis­posal as a gen­eral basis for his per­sonal mu­si­cal knowl­edge.

 
The Power of the Musical Logic