GERMAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES |
SCIENTIFICALLY INTRODUCING UNIVERSALITY TO THE UNIVERSITY |
PART X | 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
THE PROCESS OF CREATING MUSIC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Motivation and Responsibility of the Musician |
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The integrated diversity of the sequences, melodies, and motifs enlivens within the listener the world of his inner cognition and a natural awareness of his own inner power: the profound feeling of free sovereignty over his inner potential of happiness. |
The Domain of the Musical Force-Fields |
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The musician who, when musically structuring the sound-space, wants to express this inner lively world outwardly, will initially encounter difficulties, because something from inside cannot readily be transformed into something outside. |
The Inner Dimension of the Interpretation |
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To master this task of expressing comprehensive human values through the interpretation requires great ideals and the awareness of a deep, conscious responsibility towards humanity. |
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Love of music is essentially a quality of the listener. In the interpreter, in the music expert, it is the love of mankind which must dominate if he wants to promote the good in the world through music. |
Examining the Interpreter's Intentions |
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And when the musician fulfils this requirement, he will have the basic attitude needed to accomplish the laborious process of truthful conveyance of music unperturbed, and he will emerge from it fulfilled. |
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In the conventional technique of composing always the motif or the melody seemed to be the first, which the composer noticed during inner hearing. Around the motif or the melody he built so one thought the sequence and then determined the harmony technique. |
Analysis of conventional composing |
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