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


Producing Heat and Cold in Music


 
On lower lev­els of mu­sic our tools of cog­ni­tion, feel­ing and un­der­stand­ing, are enli­vened only to a small de­gree. This re­sults in a cor­re­spond­ingly in­fe­rior mu­si­cal knowl­edge which in ac­cor­dance with its low level of en­ergy is as­so­ci­ated with only a weak doubt.
The deeper, how­ever, we fathom the depth of the mu­si­cal mean­ing, and the more our feel­ing and un­der­stand­ing ac­ti­vate their in­her­ent pow­ers of cog­ni­tion dur­ing our proc­ess of gain­ing knowl­edge in mu­sic, the more these tools of cog­ni­tion be­gin to clash in our in­tel­lect-space if the ab­so­lu­te sound-sub­stance is not enli­vened, or not enli­vened pro­por­tionately to the depth of the proc­ess of cog­ni­tion like two rivers that flow against each other, the one per­ma­nently pro­duc­ing heat, the other per­ma­nently pro­duc­ing cold.

 
Non-Coordination of the Tools of Cognition in the Various Musical Force-Fields
Con­se­quently, the phe­nome­non of doubt has dif­fer­ent impact in dif­fer­ent force-fields of mu­sic.
Thus, a lis­tener but a would-be com­poser as well may vir­tu­ally exhaust him­self from in­ner doubts if his mind, his in­tel­lect, his feel­ing and un­der­stand­ing, and his sense of hear­ing are not enli­vened col­lec­tively on the level of the ab­so­lu­te sound-sub­stance.

 
Fundamental Source of Errors in the Process of Gaining Knowledge in Music
In such a case mu­sic may ac­tu­ally have a demor­aliz­ing ef­fect on the lis­tener and may truly frustrate him.
Van­dal­ism in the wake of beat and pop con­certs is the strik­ing evi­dence of such symp­toms of frus­tra­tion.

 
The Musical Way of Destruction
Far worse, how­ever, is the ef­fect which the frus­tra­tion has that re­sults from the con­sump­tion of shal­low decrepit en­ter­tain­ment mu­sic it leads to giv­ing up the quest for the mean­ing of our life, i.e. to giv­ing up the higher des­ti­na­tion of our hu­man life.