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ETHNIC MUSIC

The Systems of
Order in Music

Tonality

Differences
in Understanding as Reflected by Language

The Beginnings of
Musical History

New Sound Composer
of the 20th Century and the
Range of Intervals

Advancing
to the Transcendental
Play of Music

Musical Insight into the Culture of Peoples

Musical Relationships

The Musical Path
to Self-Knowlegde

Homophony

Polyphony

The Counterpoint

The Threefold Perfect
Form of the Harmony

Relations in Music

 

Peter Hübner
Founder of the
Micro Music Laboratories

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  The Systems of Order in Music
       
 
Musical Insight into the
Culture of Peoples


   
 
In this terms, the mu­sic of dif­fer­ent peo­ples no longer ap­pears as the ex­pres­sion of the sepa­ra­tion of en­tirely dif­fer­ent cul­tures, but rather as an ex­pres­sion of the de­gree of sub­tlety in which the natu­ral spec­trum of over­tones is per­ceived. And this, in turn, re­sults in dif­fer­ent cul­tures hav­ing dif­fer­ent meth­ods of pre­sent­ing the mu­si­cal sound-space.

 
Conclusions from the Understanding and the Presentation of the Musical Sound-Space
 
 
There­fore the mu­sic of dif­fer­ent cul­tures with their dif­fer­ent lev­els of de­vel­op­ment shows dif­fer­ent per­cep­tion of the de­gree of or­der of hu­man evo­lu­tion, which again is dif­fer­ently ex­pres­sed in mu­sic.

 
Musical Degree of Order and General Human Evolution
 
 
From this one can con­clude that the mu­sic of dif­fer­ent peo­ples, or of the same peo­ple at dif­fer­ent times or at dif­fer­ent places, is not dif­fer­ent be­cause of an imagi­nary dif­fer­ence of cul­tures, but be­cause dif­fer­ent lev­els of hu­man evo­lu­tion have been reached, and have been ex­pres­sed in their mu­sic.

   
 
From this mu­sic-theo­reti­cal analy­sis we may fur­ther con­clude that, as far as mu­si­cal or­der is con­cerned, dif­fer­ent cul­tures do not really exist. There are only higher and lower lev­els of hu­man evo­lu­tion which ex­press them­selves in vary­ing de­grees of mu­si­cal or­der.

 
Musical Order and Cultural Order
 
     
     
                                 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                     
                                     
  With kind permission of AAR EDITION INTERNATIONAL
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