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AAR EDITION INTERNATIONAL
PART   VI
THE SYSTEM OF INTELLECTUAL DISCUSSION IN MUSIC

 

 

 

Educational Differences in the Musical Discussion

 

The Feeling on the Musical Path towards Unity

 


Inner Systematics of Musical Structuring

 

The Contradiction between Unity and Diversity in the Relative Musical Force-Fields

 

 

 

 

 


The Feeling Strives Always towards Greater Musical Unity

 

The Understanding Follows the Feeling on the Musical Path of Knowledge

 

 

 

 


T
he Feeling Aspires Musical Simplicity

 

 

The Birth of Musical Doubt

 


The Feeling Drags the Understanding along to the Ancient Mothers of Music

 

 

 

The Dimension of the Harmony is Incomprehensible to the Understanding from Outside

 

 


The Understanding Begins to Anticipate Higher Musical Orders

Musical Confrontation
of Feeling and Understanding

Musical discussion is the confrontation of feeling and under-standing in the composer, but also in the music listener.
This discussion may be very easy and effortless as we experi-ence with the sages, but it may also turn into a tough conflict as we witness in the case of the uneducated.

During the process of gaining knowledge in music our feeling aspires in all simplicity to the fields of higher musical orders, because knowing higher musical orders releases more energy in our feeling, by which we listeners feel emotionally strengthened – in other words, we find ourselves confirmed in our feeling.

According to the inner systematics of the composition the path of gaining knowledge starts from the musical sound-space, and leads through the motif-space and the sequence-space to musi-cal unity, which is realized in the harmony.

Due to its inherent inertia our understanding initially offers a certain resistance to this process of gaining knowledge; be-cause, although it perceives more unity in the fields of higher musical order, at the same time it perceives less diversity.

On the path of knowledge, however, the understanding, owing to its nature, strives for diversity and is therefore confronted with our feeling.
It tries to explain to the feeling that with the vertical direction of knowledge, which leads into the depth, the musical way to-wards sentimentalism is paved, and that this musical process of gaining knowledge must end where one will also find the schmaltz.
Seen from its desire for diversity, our understanding does not see any sense in such a development, and makes it clear to the feeling with the necessary obstinacy.

And while our feeling listens to these words of reason of the understanding, it looks longingly from the musical sound-space to the motif-space, and its eyes begin to dream: only too much would it like to enter the motif-space and to unfold there happily, rather than here in the rigid limitations of the musical sound-space.

So, finally, the understanding gives in and follows the feeling into the world of the motifs.
Certainly, in this subtler musical world of cognition of the motifs it feels more awake, and despite all the motif move-ments it has not lost track of the tones – of course it still has them all in sight and watches them carefully.

Yet here – in the world of the motifs – our understanding feels that life and the process of musical unfoldment is too simple, a bit too plain. Therefore, it keeps its cognizing eye on the tones – which surround the motif-space – like an astrologer who continually gazes from his boring earth into the highly fascinating space.

While the understanding is on the lookout, our feeling, in an unobserved moment, has already peeked into the next world, the world of the sequence, where it beholds an even greater unity, and its eyes become even more shining.
Because there, our feeling discovers a world of even greater musical order, a dimension of even greater musical simplicity.

As our understanding notices this glance, it begins to doubt the qualities of the feeling.
Immediately it realizes very clearly: this is where the journey is to continue to – away from the stars, and into the life of the clan.

Therefore, the understanding decides from this moment on to go backwards for safety's sake, because on its further way with the feeling into the realm of the sequence, its beloved stars in the musical sound-space appear more and more re-mote and indistinct.

But the feeling drags it along into the realm of the sequences, to the ancient mothers of music, from which all musical motifs emerge – like children emerge from their mother – before they unfold into melodies on their individual life-paths.

Having reached the world of the sequence, only every now and then the understanding dares to cast a glance sideways, but otherwise keeps its eye of cognition directed outside to the worlds of the motifs and beyond it, to the world of the musical sound-space.
The understanding dares not to look behind itself into the realm of the harmony, because even a glance sideways shows that the musical simplicity of the world of the sequence has reached a degree which the understanding cannot readily identify with.

The feeling, however, indulges in its own happiness of life, and a discussion between feeling and understanding also reveals that the understanding actually begins to feel better in the subtler musical fields of knowledge.
Although from here the understanding can no longer perceive the distant stars of the musical sound-space, the tones, so clearly, it begins to perceive them in the motifs as well, for the motifs are permanently dealing with the shining tone waves.

And as a matter of fact, the understanding must admit that even here, in the sequences, it senses a trace of the motifs – just like concluding from the mother to the children.
Furthermore, the understanding feels more alert here in the subtler musical fields of knowledge, a sensation that is very pleasant to it; and indeed, it even believes to be more intelligent.

 

                                                                                

 

 


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NATURAL
MUSIC HEARING

FOREWORD

OUVERTURE

VI
THE SYSTEM
OF INTELLECTUAL
DISCUSSION
IN MUSIC

Musical Confrontation
of Feeling and
Understanding

The Nourishing Flood
of Pure Alertness in

the Harmony

The Musical Dispute

The Understanding
without the Perfect
Nourishment of Pure
Self-Awareness

The Process of
Intellectual Clarification in Music

Feeling and
Understanding in the
World of the Harmony

The Absolute Sound-
Substance in Perfect
Function

The Musical Dispute
as the Most Free Kind

of Playful Diversity

Musical Depreciation

Structural Musical
Analysis of Values

Breaking Off the
Cognitive Process in
Music

Natural Structuring of
the Sound Pattern in

Music

 

 

PART   VI