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 Father of the
World-Creators in Music


 
Like in­fi­nite waves, the se­quences spring from the har­mony and cre­ate their own uni­verses.

 
The Free Musical Formative Will in Action
In their moth­erly wombs the se­quences carry the mo­tifs which in turn, no sooner than they are born, cre­ate their own worlds – but like chil­dren, rather, and with an ir­re­sisti­ble thirst for ex­peri­ence – and they plunge into the floods of the mu­si­cal sound-space, like into the spaces of the cos­mos, to change the course of the stars.

 
These stars we per­ceive in the in­nu­mer­able over­tone-spec­tra of the tones, each over­tone be­ing a sun of its own.
The mo­tifs make those suns rise and set, and cre­ate in that man­ner the vi­brat­ing, re­ver­ber­at­ing fir­ma­ment of mu­sic, a glimpse of which the com­mon con­cert guest gets some­times.

 
The Stars of Heaven in Music
To the stars in the mu­si­cal fir­ma­ment, to the suns and moons of mu­sic which, revolving as if un­con­scious on their orbits, align with the mo­tifs, to them the mo­tifs as such bear great se­crets.

 
The Secret Star-Rulers in Music
They awaken the radi­ance of the stars, and this radi­ance looks back to them as the mir­ror-re­flec­tion of their own in­ner mani­fold brilliancy.

 
So, the over­tones look to­wards the mo­tifs, their ac­tual basis. Focussing com­pletely on the glo­ri­fi­ca­tion of the mo­tifs, they sim­ply pour their light over them from all an­gles.
This gives the mo­tifs the feel­ing of par­entship, an ex­peri­ence which may be com­pared to the at­ti­tude which play­ing chil­dren have to­wards their dolls.

 
Cosmic Children’s Play in Music
By their in­ner­most es­sence and by their in­ner­most na­ture the mo­tifs, in turn, con­cen­trate com­pletely on their own ori­ginators, the se­quences, the prime moth­ers of mu­sic – which permeate their chil­dren with new life again and again.

 
The Mothers of the Cosmic Star-Rulers in Music
To the mo­tifs, the se­quences are their natu­ral home, their uni­verse, their world which sur­rounds them, per­me­ates them, and feeds them al­mightily; and the food the se­quences give to the mo­tifs is the har­mony, that per­fect mu­si­cal world from where the se­quences them­selves are born.

 
By nour­ish­ing their motif-chil­dren, these prime moth­ers are also nour­ished al­mightily, and their calm and beau­ti­ful faces and the efflorescent na­ture, effervescent with joy, of their chil­dren, the mo­tifs, is what we call the liv­ing beauty of mu­sic.
The power, which un­der­lies this mani­fold beauty, we call the har­mony, or the fa­ther of mu­sic.

 
The Absolute Life-Force in Music
For the cog­niz­ing mu­sic lis­tener this spon­ta­ne­ous dis­cov­ery of his own in­ner, crea­tive world is his most in­ti­mate se­cret, and for many a rea­son he will not divulge it to his neighbour.

 
The Great Personal Secret of the Music Listener
Now he gains a clear in­ner knowl­edge of his per­sonal po­ten­tial, his gen­ius – some­thing his neighbour might call him, or might even dis­miss him as – and this knowl­edge the crea­tive mu­sic lis­tener shares only with the crea­tive phe­nome­non of the mu­si­cal poet who has ex­em­pli­fied this ex­peri­ence to him in his own life.