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 Concept of Space in Music


 
Hardly a word is used with so many mean­ings on so many dif­fer­ent lev­els as the word “space.” Peo­ple’s fan­tasy has given this word mani­fold mean­ing from a sim­ple “room” to the uni­verse, and the mu­si­cal sound-space, too, is just one of the many “spaces” in man’s imagi­na­tion.

 
The Sound-Space
The aware­ness of space arises from the rela­tive aware­ness of dif­fer­ences – from duality to di­ver­sity, or sepa­rateness – the dis­tance be­tween two or more things. On the level of sen­sory ex­peri­ence the feel­ing of space re­quires an af­firmation of sepa­rateness through sen­sory per­cep­tion. In this proc­ess a dy­namic change of the spa­tial world must take place in time; in­deed, our rela­tive aware­ness of space ac­tu­ally origi­nates and grows only with a change of the men­tal space of our imagi­na­tion.

 
Variation of the Mental Space of Imagination
Un­der the outer hull of the sound-space the mu­si­cal pa­rame­ters move as if in dif­fer­ent layers.

 
The Inner World of the Musical Sound-Space
The ma­te­rial of the mu­si­cal sound-space can be com­pared to our ma­te­rial body, while the motif-space can be com­pared to our subtle body. The motif-space enli­vens the mu­si­cal sound-space from within, it struc­tures it and holds it to­gether.

 
The Inner Field of Life of the Musical Sound-Space
In this terms, the se­quence may be un­der­stood as our mind which, from within, from a state of even greater sub­tlety, enli­vens, struc­tures, and in­te­grates our subtle body, which cor­re­sponds to the motif-spaces.

 
The Mind of the Musical Sound-Space
The in­fi­nite har­mony-space may be com­pared to that basis of our mind which, from within, from the state of great­est sub­tlety, enli­vens, struc­tures and in­te­grates the mind, which in turn cor­re­sponds to the se­quence-spaces.

 
The Secret Soul of the Musical Sound-Space