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 Process of Musical Consideration


  
Two kinds of cog­ni­tion are known to man:
    cog­niz­ing the mul­ti­plic­ity by vir­tue of the un­der­stand­ing, and
    cog­niz­ing the unity by vir­tue of the feel­ing; and, in ad­di­tion, cog­ni­tion exists in the in­te­grated form of these two paths.

  
Feeling and Understanding on the Musical Path of Cognition
It is a fea­ture of mu­si­cal cog­ni­tion on the level of our un­der­stand­ing that it brings us joy and enli­vens us.
Cog­ni­tion here means higher cog­ni­tion – to which the lis­tener climbs as if on steps.

  
The Nature of Intellectual Cognition in Music
The in­crease of joy comes about be­cause more in­tel­li­gence is re­leased within us as we com­pre­hend higher mu­si­cal or­ders on our way to higher cog­ni­tion.

  
Greater Alertness in the Tools of Cognition of the Music Listener
As this in­tel­lec­tual proc­ess of cog­ni­tion pro­ceeds, mu­sic places our tools of cog­ni­tion into a state of greater alert­ness be­cause it makes us use more of our own in­tel­li­gence.

  
Thus, our po­ten­tial of in­tel­li­gence is sys­tem­ati­cally re­leased which in­creases the pu­rity of its cog­ni­tive func­tion, and the re­sult is a brighter radi­ance of the ob­jects of knowl­edge of a higher mu­si­cal or­der.

  
The Nourishment of the Musical Tools of Cognition
As we cog­nize higher mu­si­cal or­ders, our tools of cog­ni­tion reg­is­ter an influx of mani­fold nour­ish­ment, and it ap­pears to us as if our in­ner tools of cog­ni­tion would feed through many mouths.

  
The Nature of Musical Cognition on the Level of the Feeling
It is char­ac­ter­is­tic for mu­si­cal cog­ni­tion on the level of our feel­ing to bring us hap­pi­ness and strength.
In this case, cog­ni­tion means that we climb the steps of gain­ing knowl­edge with our feel­ing.

  
The in­crease of our sen­sa­tion of hap­pi­ness comes about be­cause the mu­si­cal forces of cog­ni­tion, which we mu­sic lis­ten­ers catch with our net of knowl­edge in the wa­ters of higher mu­si­cal or­ders, shine brighter and brighter the deeper we enter the true world of mu­sic.
In this proc­ess, we re­lease within our­selves higher and higher en­er­gies for our emo­tional cog­ni­tion of the higher mu­si­cal or­ders.

  
The Practical Application of Energy in the Tools of Cognition
So, quite logi­cally, we feel more and more en­er­getic as our emo­tional proc­ess of gain­ing knowl­edge in mu­sic pro­ceeds.

  
And when, even­tu­ally, we have reached the realm of the har­mony, we even rec­og­nize our­selves as the natu­ral ex­pres­sion of pure en­ergy. At the same time, with the ca­pa­bili­ties of our un­der­stand­ing, we think we are the natu­ral ex­pres­sion of pure in­tel­li­gence.