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


The Sequence in Music


 
The se­quence is that mu­si­cal force which lov­ingly leads the danc­ing mo­tifs from one se­quence world into the next, in­spir­ing them to new crea­tive un­fold­ment in a har­mo­ni­ous man­ner, so that all the mo­tifs, al­though striv­ing apart and back to each other in many ways, still travel through each new world col­lec­tively and – with the help of the se­quence – enter ever new di­men­sions of mu­si­cal un­fold­ment.

 
The Journey of the Musical Motifs
At each tran­si­tion from one se­quence world into the next, the full beauty of the form of the se­quence ap­pears par­ticu­larly dis­tinct. Like a mother, it guides the mo­tifs – col­lects them in the old world, en­cour­ages them to enter the new world and, through the charm of its moth­erly beauty, gives them con­fi­dence to ad­vance with­out fear into the new land of the next se­quence; be­cause, to the “chil­dren” (the mo­tifs), the new se­quence world ap­pears as the mys­teri­ous, un­known sphere of a new gen­era­tion.

 
The Mysterious Unknown Sphere of a New Musical Generation
The se­quence-tech­nique is that fac­ulty of the mu­si­cal logic which gov­erns the motif-tech­nique from within. In ac­cor­dance with the in­ner for­ma­tive laws of the se­quence-tech­nique, the se­quence stimu­lates the mo­tifs, holds them to­gether, and again soothes them – like a mother tend­ing her chil­dren.

 
Nature and Purpose of the Sequence-Technique
The se­quence-tech­nique pre­vents the natu­ral or­der of the mo­tifs from disin­te­grat­ing even if the mo­tifs are of op­pos­ing na­ture and even if, in the course of the mu­si­cal event, they con­tra­dict each other ever so much.

 
The Organizing Power in the Melody-Technique
In the form of the laws of the har­mony, the se­quence-tech­nique con­tains those prin­ci­ples which im­prove the re­la­tion of the mo­tifs among each other.

 
The se­quence-tech­nique is the “field of the so­cial laws of the mo­tifs,” while the motif-tech­nique com­prises the in­di­vid­ual laws of the mo­tifs.

 
The Force-Field of the Musical Social Laws
The se­quence-tech­nique, there­fore, is a natu­ral su­pe­rior or­der of the motif-tech­nique. The motif-tech­nique evolves from the se­quence-tech­nique; it is, in its latent form, al­ready pre­sent within it, and is not later at­tached ar­ti­fi­cially to the se­quence-tech­nique.

 
The se­quence is that in­ner life-im­pulse of the com­po­si­tion which unites the mo­tifs so natu­rally as our palm holds our fin­gers to­gether. And as lit­tle as the palm moves when ac­ti­vat­ing the in­di­vid­ual fin­gers, as lit­tle is the se­quence moved even when the in­di­vid­ual mo­tifs are mov­ing apart, or to­gether again, in the mu­si­cal dance.

 
The Discrete Execution of Power of the Musical Sequence
And due to this dis­crete na­ture of its ac­tiv­ity, the se­quence is not eas­ily iden­ti­fied in the com­po­si­tion.

 
The Musical Sequence as the All-Nourishing Motif Mother
Thus, the se­quence acts as the all-nour­ish­ing motif mother be­tween the har­mony and the danc­ing mo­tifs, and en­chants the mo­tifs with the quali­ties of the har­mony.

 
In a moth­erly way, the se­quence holds the mo­tifs to­gether and har­mon­izes their in­ten­tions which are often striv­ing apart; at the same time, how­ever, it leaves them ex­tremely wide scope for in­di­vid­ual crea­tive un­fold­ment.

 
The Musical Force-Field of the Creative Unfoldment of the Motifs
On the level of the se­quence-tech­nique, the art of com­pos­ing lies in the se­quence only pro­mot­ing, and never in­hib­it­ing, the free un­fold­ment of the mo­tifs in the course of the mu­si­cal event, and it also lies in the mo­tifs, in­spired by the beauty of the se­quence, al­ways and only liv­ing the natu­ral in­ner power of the har­mony.

 
The Compositional Art of the Sequence-Technique
The mas­tery over the ap­plied se­quence-tech­nique con­sists of the art of merg­ing the mo­tifs with the har­mony of the com­po­si­tion.

 
Thus, the ap­plied se­quence-tech­nique rep­re­sents a more com­pre­hen­sive for­ma­tive will than the ap­plied motif-tech­nique be­cause it acts in a su­pe­rior di­men­sion of a mu­si­cal or­der, in the world of the se­quence, where the in­di­vid­ual mo­tifs are held to­gether on the level of the so­cial struc­ture of the com­po­si­tion.

 
The Musical Formative Will in the Social Field of Music
In this way, the moth­ers (the se­quences) are serv­ing the fore-fa­ther of mu­sic (the har­mony) by in­spir­ing his chil­dren (the mo­tifs), and by guiding them through the world of mu­sic.

 
Applied Sequence-Technique