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


Absolute Music

 
Thus, even at an early time, the great think­ers of man­kind sought to pre­serve the pu­rity of mu­sic.

 
The Egyp­tians, for ex­ample, adopted the view that only such mu­sic be tol­er­ated which tames the pas­sions, but not that which only stimu­lates the senses.

 
The great think­ers of the hellenic cul­ture re­garded melody and rhythm as the ex­pres­sion of ethi­cal at­ti­tudes. Thus, they em­pha­sized the na­ture-given task of mu­sic to cre­ate and guar­an­tee the or­derly, moral dis­po­si­tion of the soul. There­fore, mu­sic to them was the basis for suc­cess­ful cog­ni­tion of truth, for edu­ca­tion and for learn­ing.

 
In our time, most an­cient knowl­edge is break­ing through, as new truths are com­ing to light in our sci­en­tific and tech­ni­cal day-to-day life, and it urges eve­ry­one of us to as­sume a clear at­ti­tude in shap­ing our world.

 
Just as one only sees the top of an iceberg – that part which is above the wa­ter – while the larg­est, heaviest part, the sup­port­ing base, lies hid­den in the depths of the wa­ter, like­wise in mu­si­cal edu­ca­tion only the tip, only the small­est part of the phe­nome­non of mu­sic has been pre­sented to us. Up to now, the sup­port­ing foun­da­tion of the iceberg of mu­sic has gen­er­ally re­mained in­visi­ble – hid­den within the hearts of our great mu­si­cal art­ists who have passed on the se­cret of mu­sic only to their equals. There­fore, the es­sence of mu­sic has been, and still re­mains, un­known and in­ac­ces­si­ble to the masses of mu­sic con­sumers – but also to mu­sic lovers and even to prac­tis­ing mu­si­cians.

 
It is the pur­pose of this book to raise the en­tire iceberg of mu­sic to the wa­ter sur­face and to in­spire eve­ry man, the mu­sic ex­pert as well as the mighty mu­sic lover, to gain truth­ful in­sight into the un­earthly abode of the Queen of Arts.

 
There­fore, all such in­for­ma­tion, which may be found in stan­dard mu­sic books, was dis­missed from this se­ries of books, and only that as­pect of mu­sic was con­sid­ered which makes mu­sic im­mor­tal.