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 Purpose of Musical Logic


 
The lis­tener’s skil­ful, co­or­di­nated use of his cog­ni­tive tools plays the key role in the mu­si­cal proc­ess of cog­ni­tion and con­cerns the com­pe­tent use of the golden-silvery net of our emo­tional and in­tel­lec­tual find­ing truth in mu­sic. And as he un­folds his mu­si­cal poetry, the com­poser edu­cates the lis­tener in a very subtle man­ner to skil­fully use this net of cog­ni­tion.

 
Learning the Integrated Use of the Cognitive Tools in Music
In the mu­si­cal co­or­di­na­tion of in­di­vid­ual cog­ni­tive forces the pat­tern of the net of knowl­edge is traced out for the lis­tener by the com­poser.
By care­fully emphasizing se­lected prin­ci­ples of the mu­si­cal logic he enli­vens this net of cog­ni­tion within the lis­tener as he lis­tens to the mu­sic, and puts it in ac­tion.

 
The Purpose of Musical Logic
The kind of enliv­en­ment is based on the in­ner logic of the com­po­si­tional un­fold­ment within the tone-tech­nique, the motif-tech­nique, the melody-tech­nique, the se­quence-tech­nique, and the har­mony-tech­nique – in the same man­ner as the com­poser has woven it into his work.

 
Musical Enlivenment of the Net of Knowledge in the Listener
And by per­ma­nently chang­ing, re­fin­ing, ennobling, and gilding the pro­por­tions of the origi­nal cog­ni­tive pat­tern in his work, he stimu­lates a cor­re­spond­ing sys­tem­atic proc­ess of re­fine­ment in the lis­tener’s world of cog­ni­tion, thus tak­ing him along on the path of knowl­edge which he had walked off be­fore, and which safely leads to the mu­si­cal truth.

 
On the one hand, then, the proc­ess of gain­ing knowl­edge in mu­sic is of a quasi mechanistic kind, since the mind of the lis­tener is stimu­lated from out­side to vibrate – ac­cord­ing to a pat­tern set out in the com­po­si­tion.

 
The Musical Patterns of Cognition in Action
But on the other hand, the proc­ess of know­ing is at the same time of a peda­gogical kind, be­cause the in­tel­lect of the knower, his feel­ing and his un­der­stand­ing, are made fa­mil­iar in a very sys­tem­atic man­ner with the mu­si­cal pat­terns of a higher or­der – in a man­ner so unob­tru­sive and dis­creet that the lis­tener often hardly feels the one guiding him, and at best has a faint idea of him.

 
The Secret Ruler of the Musical Process of Knowing