Aar Edition International, The Melody, Classical Music Creation, The Force-Fields in Music, Peter Huebner

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 Inner Breath of the Motifs

The Sustaining Force in the Musical Unfoldment of the Motif

The Growth of the Melody

Sequence-Technique

The Personal Journey of the Musical Listener

The Growth of the Motif

The Whole of the Melody is more than the Sum of the Parts of the Motifs

The Melody

The sequence is the inner breath of the motifs and, therefore, the inner breath of the melody as well.

The sequence is that force which, from within, sustains the aspects of the motif in their diversity as the melody. When the motif elements of the melody tend to fall apart – which would disrupt the description of the motif’s life – the sequence unites the waves of music even stronger.

As the motif sets out on its individual path of life, it expands into the melody, and this is due to the natural formative power of the sequence which permeates it from within with the harmonizing qualities of joy.

The compositional rules according to which the sequence guides the motif on its life-path in the melody are called the “sequence-technique.”

To the listener the melody is his personal journey through the worlds of the motifs; and the melody appears to him as a more comprehensive form of the motif, as the more manifold expression of the motif.

The melody, by nature, is not a sum of motifs, rather it has grown entirely from a single motif, just as a tree grows from a single seed.

A sum of motifs, therefore, does not yet constitute a naturally grown melody but is comparable to a tree that has been artificially assembled.