Aar Edition International, Motif Technique, Peter Huebner, Natural Music Creation, The Force-Fields in Music

The Book “Natural Music Creation” is a document and – according to the author – it stands as a token of gratitude to all those great talents or even geniuses who, out of their innermost love for the art of sound, kept the inner reality of music alive throughout the times.

These outstanding personalities we know as our great musical creators. But also, this “autobiography of music” is a landmark of the generation of a new age, a generation which today, with scientific accuracy, penetrates into the mechanism of musical creativity, systematically performs research on it, and wants to authentically capture the art of our great masters of music. The first sense of achievement of the modern music student, then, lies in the development of his ability to listen to music creatively – that ability which since all times represents the timeless, true inner basis of the art of sound. Zitat

Reference work: Peter Huebner – Natural Music Creation – Music Theory © AAR EDITION INTERNATIONAL 1982

The System of Inner Creativity

Classical Motif-Technique

The Battlefield of the Innermost Human-Qualities

The Influence of Classical Music

The Musical Handling of the Forces of Life

Motif Technique

The natural and well-designed application of qualities of the human character in the garment of music is called motif-technique. Thereby, inner creativity is the practical mechanism through which the composer projects his inner cognition in the outward direction and transforms it into the audible experience.

When the musical creator is aware of this process in detail, and when he realizes the human faculties as the unity of his inner cognition, his inner experience, and inner hearing, then this art is called “motif-technique” in classical composition.

The range of influence of the motif-technique is the battlefield of the inner-human driving forces: the qualities of the composer, the qualities of the listener, and the qualities of man in general.

The deep influence of classical music is explained by the masterful handling of that field of experience of our innermost, individual existence which constitutes our true life and which reveals itself to the listener in the composition.

Thus, the motif-technique is the meaningful handling – according to its own inherent laws – of our innermost impulses of life, of those elements which are closer to life than the entire outer world of phenomena.