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

NATURAL
MUSIC CREATION


OUVERTURE
THE IMMORTAL ENCHANTED REALM OF THE QUEEN OF MUSIC


TEIL I
THE PROCESS OF CREATING MUSIC


TEIL II
THE CLASSICAL TEACHING SCOPE OF MUSIC


TEIL III
THE INNER MECHANICS OF CREATING MUSIC


TEIL IV
DIDACTICS OF MUSIC


TEIL V
THE FORCE-FIELDS IN MUSIC


TEIL VI
THE PURPOSE OF MUSIC TRADITION


TEIL VII
SPACE AND TIME IN MUSIC


TEIL VIII
THE PHYSICS OF MUSIC


TEIL IX
THE SYSTEMS OF ORDER IN MUSIC


TEIL X
SCIENTIFIC FUNDAMENTALS OF MUSIC AESTHETICS


TEIL XI
THE SCIENCE OF MUSIC


TEIL XII
MUSIC AND SPEECH


The Motif


 
The mu­si­cal motif ex­pres­ses a trait of the hu­man char­ac­ter. The change of the motif dur­ing the com­po­si­tion dis­plays the free play of that qual­ity in the mani­fold field of hu­man char­ac­ter­is­tics; but also, the change of the motif de­scribes how a trait of the hu­man char­ac­ter is be­ing freed from the world of limi­ta­tions.

 
The Dimension of the Musical Motif
The skil­ful mu­si­cal-com­po­si­tional han­dling of the motif cor­re­sponds to the skil­ful han­dling of our hu­man quali­ties, and can be com­pared to the dex­ter­ity of a juggler who holds the ele­ments only briefly in his hands, and re­leases them again as quickly as pos­si­ble, which al­lows him to bring more and more ele­ments un­der his con­trol and to mas­ter his play more and more com­pre­hen­sively.

 
The Juggler of the Musical Elements
Here the free power over the ele­ments in motion domi­nates, as op­posed to the rigid pos­ses­sion of non-mov­ing parts; and this anal­ogy sig­ni­fies the play­ful ease by which the mas­tery over our in­ner-hu­man forces is ex­er­cised in the ap­plied motif-tech­nique.

 
In the world of mo­tifs of a clas­si­cal com­po­si­tion the free mas­tery over our lively in­ner-hu­man forces over­comes the lim­it­ing rigidity of our char­ac­ter. Thus, the play­ful ele­ment of life raises the beauty of crea­tive ex­pres­sion into the light of the world of mu­sic.

 
The Playful Element of Life in Music
There­fore the com­poser uses the mu­si­cal motif to dis­play a more and more com­pre­hen­sive per­sonal mas­tery over the many facets of our char­ac­ter.

 
Meaning and Purpose of the Musical Motif
The mu­si­cal mo­tifs are mani­fold, as mani­fold as the traits of our char­ac­ter; and the ex­pres­sion of the mu­si­cal mo­tifs may be as subtle as the subtle gradua­tions of the fea­tures of our char­ac­ter.

 
Manifold Musical Motifs