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 Fires of Cognition in Music


 
In mu­sic, each field of knowl­edge, each level of cog­ni­tion has its very own char­ac­ter­is­tic fires of knowl­edge which we mu­sic lovers pass by in our proc­ess of gain­ing knowl­edge in mu­sic.

 
The Listener’s Shining Path of Gaining Knowledge
And we enjoy their mani­fold warmth, their radi­ant light, and their mul­ti­fari­ous forms and shapes which are painted into the re­sound­ing space by the torch of the con­vey­ance of truth in mu­sic.

 
On the higher lev­els of mu­si­cal or­der, the fires of cog­ni­tion burn with more re­fined flame pat­terns and with a sub­tler, brighter, and more pow­er­ful radi­ance.

 
The Musical Order of the Fires of Cognition
In the field of the mu­si­cal sound-space, the fires of cog­ni­tion burn with the bright­ness of the pro­tons, elec­trons and neu­trons, and they appear as the fire­work of the mu­si­cal struc­tures of molecules – a pro­jec­tion of na­ture un­enli­vened.

 
The Fires of Cognition in the Musical Sound-Space
In the mu­si­cal motif-spaces, the fires of cog­ni­tion burn with the bright­ness that dis­tin­guishes in­di­vid­uals in their proc­ess of un­fold­ment, and we are re­minded of the beaming face of a child which is overjoyed be­cause of a spe­cial pre­sent – but also of the radi­ant look of some­one who just made a pro­found in­sight.

 
The Fires of Cognition in the Musical Motif-Space
In the course of the motif ac­tions, we see the light, and we see many lights; for light­ing ever new mu­si­cal fires of cog­ni­tion ac­counts for the radi­ance of the motif move­ments in mu­sic.

 
The Radiance of the Motif Movements in Music
The melody is the great cir­cle of those lights of cog­ni­tion which mark the enlight­en­ing stages of the in­di­vid­ual path of life.

 
The Great Circle of the Musical Fires of Cognition
In the clas­si­cal works of the great com­pos­ers, these fires of cog­ni­tion reach to the height of the mu­si­cal per­form­ance and into the depth of mu­si­cal un­der­stand­ing and ex­peri­ence, in the same way as sun and moon rise on their orbits and cast their light.

 
On the level of the mu­si­cal se­quence-space, the fires of cog­ni­tion burn with the bright­ness that in­di­vid­uals spread in the joyful com­pany of oth­ers, and we are re­minded of the eyes of lovers that shine as they be­come aware of their mutual mani­fold sym­pa­thy.

 
The Highest Sacrificial Fire of Music
But also, in the se­quence-spaces, we often see with the eyes of a fa­ther who fol­lows the play of his chil­dren with a shin­ing look

 
All the flames per­vade each other with golden effulgence – like a sin­gle flame per­vad­ing it­self in in­fi­nitely many forms – and give our wide-awake un­der­stand­ing the com­plete pic­ture of the mu­si­cal re­al­ity.

 
The Complete Picture of Musical Reality
And while the warm­ing, glow­ing flows of this su­preme mu­si­cal sac­ri­fice merge into each other in an in­fi­nite flow, they swing from unity in a bliss­ful sway to unity again and again, and warm the full­ness of our feel­ing in a won­der­ful, mani­fold man­ner.

 
The Musical Way from Unity to Unity
In the har­mony, how­ever, the com­plete mu­si­cal ex­peri­ence and the en­tire magic world of mu­sic is permeated by the al­mighty and all-cre­at­ing forces of a new, unlim­ited world be­yond space and time, a world which the mu­sic lover now spon­ta­ne­ously lo­cal­izes within him­self.

 
A New, Unlimited World beyond Space and Time
This ab­so­lu­te mu­si­cal world of the har­mony is held to­gether and or­gan­ized by the un­earthly breath of life – that cos­mic breath which per­me­ates all true mu­sic like a pri­mor­dial wind and which sus­tains it from within, as the soul of the art of sound.

 
The Cosmic Wind as the Basis of Music
And the mu­sic lover real­izes that this cos­mic breath of life is his own in­ner breath.