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 Great Musical Sense
of Achievement


 
Fi­nally, in the course of this per­ma­nently weighing the parts against the whole – the smaller or­ders, com­bined into a great one, be­ing weighed against this greater one as a whole – the mu­sic lis­tener gradu­ally learns to dis­tin­guish the parts within the whole, too, as if one would learn to per­ceive the com­po­nents of the tree within the seed.
This cog­niz­ing the di­ver­sity within unity sys­tem­ati­cally in­creases the in­tel­lec­tual ful­filledness of the lis­tener and stirs his natu­ral, in­tel­lec­tual joy of knowl­edge.

 
The Net of Knowledge of the Understanding
At the same time, how­ever, the mu­sic lis­tener feels tempted to catch more and more pow­er­ful truths with his net of knowl­edge now struc­tured more and more tightly, for if he suc­ceeds, he feels more and more pow­er­ful.

 
The Net of Knowledge of the Feeling
In this proc­ess he re­leases higher and higher in­ner worlds of power within him­self and draws from fields of higher and higher en­ergy.

 
Fi­nally, the mu­sic lis­tener learns the lucky strike: he casts the tightest imag­in­able of all nets of cog­ni­tion, the most golden, the most shin­ing of all nets, and makes the great­est catch known in mu­sic: he catches the har­mony.

 
The Net of Knowledge Made of Feeling and Understanding in Action
And when the suc­cess­ful lis­tener ex­am­ines his catch more closely, he finds that the net is a mir­ror and the har­mony his own re­flec­tion, and he real­izes that he has caught him­self. This fills him with de­light, for now he knows that he has power over him­self; af­ter all, who can make such a claim?

 
Music as an Expression of the Music Lover
At the same time, the lis­tener un­der­stands that, by ex­er­cis­ing the power over him­self, he guar­an­tees his out­side free­dom; be­cause sud­denly he be­comes so wide-awake on the level of his own in­ner­most for­ma­tive forces, that he can skill­fully dodge all outer ma­nipu­la­tion.
In this man­ner he turns into a sin­gle fighter on the mu­si­cal battle-field of forces: he be­comes a hero.

Very clearly he feels in­vin­ci­ble from out­side.

 
The Listener as a Free Ruler in the Musical Force-Fields
Thus he dances in the round dance of his own, free, in­ner de­ci­sions, of his own in­ner fan­tasy of life, with the seven-league boots of his own in­ner fac­ul­ties of cog­ni­tion through his crea­tive world, and from there occassionally into his sur­round­ings.
And peo­ple will say he is untrou­bled and happy, unshakeable and de­ter­mined in ac­tion, lib­eral and amicable.

 
The Wonderland of the Creative Music Listener
Are such in­sights new? Do they de­pend on the sound of cer­tain mu­si­cal works? Ob­vi­ously, such an in­ner ex­peri­ence al­ready exists within the mu­sic lis­tener – within man – and the art of tones only stimu­lates this kind of ex­peri­ence.
And the ar­tis­tic achieve­ment of the mu­si­cal poet lies in the proc­ess of condensation in his works, and his art lies in teach­ing his lis­tener how to use the truth-catch­ing net of knowl­edge – how to refine his think­ing, feel­ing, un­der­stand­ing, and hear­ing: he teaches him the art of poetry – in­deed, in such an unob­tru­sive, dis­creet and loving man­ner, that his lis­tener is will­ing to travel with him into un­known dis­tances full of con­fi­dence, and that he does not get tan­gled in doubts on this path of knowl­edge.

 
The Artistic Achievement of the Music Creator