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 Golden Net of
Knowledge in Music


 
Analogously, both non-liv­ing and liv­ing truths of mani­fold de­grees of or­der are caught in the flow­ing wa­ters of cog­ni­tion of mu­sic, and the nets that are used dif­fer from each other.

 
The Flowing Waters of Cognition in Music
There are en­tire categories of mu­si­cal nets of knowl­edge; the in­ner sound-tech­nique, for ex­ample, uses a net to catch the un­enli­vened as­pects of mu­sic.

 
Analysis of Gaining Knowledge in Music
The motif-tech­nique, how­ever, catches the in­di­vid­ual forces in mu­sic with its nets, while the se­quence-tech­nique catches the so­cial forces, and the har­mony-tech­nique catches the sum to­tal of all forces.

 
On the one hand, the com­poser cre­ates the uni­verse of mu­sic in all its mul­ti­plic­ity – as if he pro­duced the whole of na­ture at a stroke; but on the other hand, at the same time he goes through his re­sound­ing crea­tion like a guide, equip­ped with dif­fer­ent nets of knowl­edge.

 
Practical Training in the Musical Gaining of Cognition
Lov­ingly he takes his at­ten­tive lis­tener by the hand and shows him how to get hold of the re­spec­tive forces of knowl­edge from the floods of gain­ing knowl­edge in mu­sic.

 
Sys­tem­ati­cally, yet very play­fully, the keen mu­sic lover learns to catch mu­si­cal truth with these nets of knowl­edge, and from the mu­sic poet he even learns to change the mesh of the nets while catch­ing.

 
The Music Listener in the Practical Training for Philosophy
Now he needs only one net any­more, and still has all the ad­van­tages of the oth­ers.
And with this sin­gle net of knowl­edge he then gathers all the truths em­bed­ded in mu­sic.

 
Prac­tis­ing in this man­ner, the mu­sic lis­tener quickly dis­cov­ers that with a tighter net he is able to catch more com­pre­hen­sive truths, and that with a net more loose he can only grasp de­tail truths.
Both are nec­es­sary, for by know­ing the de­tail truths he comes to know more dis­tinctly the mani­fold struc­ture of the com­pre­hen­sive truths – be­cause par­tial truths derive from the more com­pre­hen­sive truths like chil­dren from their par­ents.

 
The Listener’s Knowledge of the Practical Significance of Detail Truths