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.

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 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.

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.

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.