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 Intention
of Conveying Truth in Music


 
In his mu­si­cal work the com­poser pur­sues a clearly de­fined in­ten­tion: step by step he wants to make his lis­tener fa­mil­iar with the lib­er­at­ing world of self-aware­ness, and he achieves it by di­rect­ing the mu­si­cal flow in such a way that – start­ing from the mu­si­cal sound-space – his lis­tener is taken in steps through the motif and se­quence-spaces into the in­fi­nite space of the har­mony.

 
The Journey from the Musical Sound-Space to the Absolute Music-World of the Harmony
As the lis­tener reaches this unlim­ited mu­si­cal space of the har­mony, he ar­rives si­mul­ta­ne­ously at him­self and lo­cates the dy­namic mu­si­cal full­ness of his own self-aware­ness.

 
So, the pur­pose of the clas­si­cal mu­si­cal work lies in glo­ri­fy­ing self-aware­ness – the natu­ral crea­tive realm of the com­poser; and the intent of the mu­si­cal crea­tor lies in in­tro­duc­ing the lis­tener to the ex­peri­ence of pure self-aware­ness. To achieve this he em­ploys the means of mu­sic.

 
Introducing the Listener to Pure Self-Awareness
Un­per­turbed the mu­si­cal crea­tor pur­sues this goal.
He guides the lis­tener through the beauty of the world and brings him closer to that har­mony by which the world is or­gan­ized from its ori­gin.

 
Cognition of the Original Order of the World
This in­ten­tion is quite un­der­stand­able – par­ticu­larly at a time when, as a re­sult of hu­man misbe­hav­iour, the en­vi­ron­ment ap­pears hos­tile here and there, and the re­al­ity of life, origi­nally har­mo­ni­ously de­signed, ap­pears dis­torted to those who do not un­der­stand the rea­sona­bly or­gan­ized re­la­tion­ship be­tween cause and ef­fect.

 
Owing to this dis­torted pic­ture of na­ture, which ac­tu­ally func­tions fully in sup­port of life, man quarrels with his fate.
And ei­ther he stands against na­ture, or he thinks he should and could outwit this al­mighty force by means of tech­ni­cal de­vices – so-called “achieve­ments.”

 
Man Challenging Fate
The clas­si­cal com­poser edu­cates the mu­sic lis­tener as to the sense­lessness of such il­lu­sion – on which, af­ter all, the en­tire tech­ni­cal civi­li­za­tion with all its hu­man in­com­pe­tence is based – and shows him prac­ti­cal means and pass­able ways of plac­ing him­self and his ac­tion into har­mony with na­ture al­mighty.

 
Harmonizing Function of Music
Mu­si­cally-tech­ni­cally, this edu­ca­tional proc­ess starts from the un­fold­ment of the motif, con­tin­ues into the se­quence-space, and finds its con­clu­sion in the space of the har­mony.
On the level of the har­mony the lis­tener is permeated by the val­ues of the ab­so­lu­te sound-sub­stance, and he ex­peri­ences his per­sonal life to­tally in tune with the om­nipo­tent laws of na­ture; in­deed, he even real­izes that in his crea­tive act – which re­sults logi­cally from the mu­si­cal proc­ess of cog­ni­tion – he is the le­giti­mate ruler over na­ture.

 
Experiencing Harmony with the Almighty Laws of Nature
And from this new stand­point within his self-knowl­edge, he even re­gards na­ture as his in­ti­mate com­pan­ion on his way, who is very natu­rally in­clined to­wards his de­sires and ful­fils them.