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 man
That hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved With concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons
Stratagems, and spoils...”

William Shakespeare


 

The Queen of Arts

 
The his­tory of mu­sic spans al­most 6,000 years. Through­out this span of time the “Art of the Muse” often changed its costume but, just as in an­cient times, it con­tin­ues to re­sound in per­fec­tion.

 
6,000 Years of Music History
To­day in a new age, at the dawn of a new day in the his­tory of man­kind, the Queen of Arts shines into our world like the light of the sun and wins the friend­ship of those who love life.

 
Music of a New Age
Even at the first glimpse of dawn the lucid shape of this queen ap­pears to us in the depth of her na­ture so fa­mil­iar that we are re­minded of an­cient re­cords that praise the power of her per­fect beauty.

 
The Dawn
From an­cient re­cords we know that the Chi­nese con­sid­ered mu­sic to be the source of their love of truth, of their knowl­edge of truth, and that they even looked upon mu­sic as the un­derly­ing power of the cos­mos.

 
Musical Tradition of China
Thus, to the Chi­nese, mu­sic elu­ci­dated the natu­ral or­der of the world and the stan­dards of their cul­tural evo­lu­tion – from man’s ar­du­ous quest for the mean­ing of life to the spiri­tual height of hu­man per­fec­tion.

 
Harmony of the Worlds
To the Chi­nese, mu­sic was the prin­ci­ple un­derly­ing all world har­mony; to them, mu­sic de­ter­mined the bal­ance of hu­man-di­vine de­vel­op­ment as well as the equi­lib­rium of physi­cal forces.

 
Ancient Records of Mu­si­cal Tra­di­tion from Egypt
In an­cient times the Egyp­tians thought mu­sic to be of di­vine ori­gin. So, mu­sic was the au­thor­ity on Egyp­tian ethi­cal teach­ing, and it rep­re­sented the com­pre­hen­sive foun­da­tion for their hu­man edu­ca­tion.

 
Human Education
To the Egyp­tians, mu­sic was the great gift prom­is­ing in­di­vid­ual free­dom to the young striv­ing for per­fec­tion.

 
Musical Tradition of the Babylonians
Thou­sands of years ago, the Baby­lonians, too, rec­og­nized the cosmologi­cal pur­pose of mu­sic. And, like the Chi­nese, they real­ized that in true clas­si­cal mu­sic they could find the prin­ci­ples of an all-em­brac­ing world or­der ful­filled.

 
In Greece, mu­sic was a gift of the gods given to man. It was also the golden key for gain­ing high­est hu­man knowl­edge.
 
Musical Tradition of the Hellenes
To the Hellenes, mu­sic, like no other art, dis­played hu­man feel­ing and char­ac­ter both at their high­est level of per­fec­tion. And ac­cord­ingly, they em­ployed mu­sic as a means to glo­rify the hu­man-di­vine reve­la­tion.

 
To­day, the bliss­ful ec­stasy, which they ex­peri­enced dur­ing the boisterous fes­ti­val of Dionysos, ap­pears to us like a fertility rite. To the an­cient Greek, how­ever, this fes­ti­val was de­voted to the su­preme hu­man ex­peri­ence, the prin­ci­ple of duality on the level of unity – an idea we will later find real­ized in the sym­pho­nies of the great clas­si­cal com­pos­ers.

 
Gift of the Gods