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


Feeling and Understanding
in the World of the Harmony


 
In the cog­ni­tive proc­ess in mu­sic the feel­ing floated into higher and higher fields of in­sight, and it pro­ceeded by wish and by will to­wards unity. And when it fi­nally reached the su­preme mu­si­cal world of the har­mony, the feel­ing im­me­di­ately rec­og­nized its origi­nal home which the unity in selfaware­ness in­deed is.

 
The Feeling Reaches its Original Home
Even on the level of the har­mony, feel­ing and un­der­stand­ing, the two forces of know­ing, are still di­vergent by their very na­ture; more so, through the all-nour­ish­ing quali­ties of our selfaware­ness these two tools of cog­ni­tion are in­fi­nitely strength­ened in this per­fect mu­si­cal force-field so that only now they can truly live their re­spec­tive char­ac­ter in its full value.
Thus, in this ab­so­lu­te mu­si­cal force-field, feel­ing and un­der­stand­ing di­verge with utmost strength – away from each other, as it were.

 
Opposite Tendencies of the Two Musical Forces of Knowing Even in the Harmony
The level of the har­mony is also the field of the ab­so­lu­te tone-sub­stance – the field of the in­ner breath of mu­sic, of our in­ner­most cos­mic breath of life; and by cog­niz­ing the har­mony, our ex­peri­ence of the ab­so­lu­te sound-sub­stance has reached its su­preme, its per­fect value.

 
The Absolute Tone-Substance Harmonizes Feeling and Understanding
The forces of the ab­so­lu­te sound-sub­stance, which vibrate al­mightily in the depth of our mind, move in an even higher or­der than did the forces of feel­ing and un­der­stand­ing, and for this rea­son they turn out to be stronger than those.
So, by vir­tue of the laws of a higher or­der, the ab­so­lu­te sound-sub­stance is able to keep feel­ing and un­der­stand­ing united on the level of the har­mony, be­cause it per­me­ates and unites these forces, striv­ing apart with a fer­vent will of life, with the quali­ties of the har­mony.

 
This uni­fi­ca­tion of our forces of feel­ing and un­der­stand­ing, so com­pletely di­vergent by their very na­ture, brings about a true un­ion, a genu­ine con­nec­tion be­tween these forces. This re­sults in the play­ful­ness of a de­bate which is held with utmost lucidity by feel­ing and un­der­stand­ing.

 
Unity of Feeling and Understanding
Hence, the term “de­bate” here refers not so much to those un­pleas­ant con­se­quences which in­evi­ta­bly arise in the field of incom­plete knowl­edge of truth when opin­ions di­verge.
As ex­plained above, such di­vergence was in­te­grated so skil­fully through the unifying ef­fect of the ab­so­lu­te sound-sub­stance, that now, within the ab­so­lu­te sphere of the har­mony – be­yond space and time – the di­verg­ing and the converging of feel­ing and un­der­stand­ing have be­come a unity them­selves.

 
The Dispute of Feeling and Understanding beyond Space and Time