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 Dual Musical Truth


 
In the course of these ex­peri­ences – dur­ing our rela­tive mu­si­cal proc­ess of gain­ing knowl­edge, and dur­ing our free mu­si­cal proc­ess of crea­tion – each time a com­pletely dif­fer­ent mu­si­cal truth dis­closes to us.

 
Musical Knowledge of the Listener and of the Composer
If the ex­peri­ence of the ab­so­lu­te sound-sub­stance is lack­ing in our tools of cog­ni­tion, then we nec­es­sar­ily deduce only the ex­tremely lim­ited shadow images of the mu­si­cal re­al­ity and we even be­lieve that these shadow images are the whole mu­si­cal re­al­ity.

 
Lack of the Absolute Sound-substance in the Tools of Cognition
If, how­ever, we per­ceive the per­fect fun­da­men­tal vi­bra­tion of the ab­so­lu­te sound-sub­stance clearly in our tools of cog­ni­tion, then sud­denly, by vir­tue of this per­cep­tion, a com­pletely dif­fer­ent in­sight re­veals it­self.
As if with seven-league boots we now enter the ab­so­lu­te mu­si­cal force-field of the har­mony with­out any ob­sta­cles, and per­ceive there an in­fi­nite, unlim­ited flow of mu­sic be­yond space and time.

 
Knowing the Eternal Reality of Absolute Music
And we real­ize that this al­mighty force-field of the har­mony is the one and only eter­nal re­al­ity of the true mu­si­cal event in its su­preme per­fec­tion.
Then we must admit that, in com­pari­son, the outer rela­tive mu­si­cal event is but a mere shadow, a re­flec­tion hardly visi­ble.

 
This ambiguity of our cog­ni­tive valuation of mu­sic is there­fore based on a non-ex­peri­ence, or on an ex­peri­ence, of the per­fect fun­da­men­tal vi­bra­tion of the ab­so­lu­te sound-sub­stance in our tools of cog­ni­tion.
And whereas, in the proc­ess of mu­sic, we per­ceive only the form of the mu­sic as it were, we com­pre­hend on the ab­so­lu­te mu­si­cal level of the har­mony the con­tent of all mu­sic.

 
Cognition of Meaning and Form in Music
While the form of mu­sic de­vel­ops in space and time, its con­tent re­mains dy­namic and in an in­fi­nite flow of unlim­ited di­ver­sity within its origi­nal realm of the har­mony.