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THEORETICAL FUNDAMENTALS

UNIVERSAL
MUSIC THEORY 1

VII.
SPACE AND TIME
IN MUSIC

The Concept of Space
in Music

The Two Ways of Experiencing Space

Space-Experience in
the Microcosm of Music

Space-Time Integration
in Music

Space-Time Fusion
through the Integration
of the Musical Spaces

The Integrated Play of
Time and Space

The Potential of the
Musician

The Relationship of
Rhythm and Tonality

Field of Cognition -
Enlivened Silence

The Core of Practising
the Art of Music

Conventional and
Modern Mechanisms
of Musical Performance

 

Peter Hübner
Founder of the
Micro Music Laboratories

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Theoretical Fundamentals
  PART   VII            
  SPACE AND TIME IN MUSIC            
         
 
The Two Ways of Experiencing Space


   
 
Space-aware­ness and space-feel­ing are com­po­nents of knowl­edge which are ex­peri­enced from the level of the mind and which are there­fore not at all di­rectly re­lated to any as­pect of the en­vi­ron­ment.

 
Space-Aware­ness and Space-Feel­ing as Com­po­nents of Knowl­edge
 
 
The dis­tance of things sepa­rated in time or space cor­re­sponds to the phe­nome­non of po­ten­tial en­ergy in na­ture and cre­ates the space-aware­ness of the un­der­stand­ing. The change of the dis­tance be­tween things sepa­rated in time or space cor­re­sponds to the phe­nome­non of kinetic en­ergy in na­ture; it pre­domi­nantly stimu­lates the feel­ing, and from the feel­ing level it gen­er­ates the ex­peri­ence of space through the senses.

 
Potential and Kinetic Energy in the Musical Sound-Space
 
 
Thus, we dis­tin­guish two kinds of spa­tial ex­peri­ence: the “static” ex­peri­ence of space through the ana­lyti­cal un­der­stand­ing and the “dy­namic” ex­peri­ence of space through the syn­the­siz­ing feel­ing.
When lis­ten­ing to mu­sic, these two phe­no­mena of spa­tial ex­peri­ence al­ways appear to­gether and in mutual de­pend­ence; some­times, the one domi­nates, and some­times the other.

 
“Static” and “Dynamic” Experience of Space
 
 
The in­ter­play of feel­ing and un­der­stand­ing gen­er­ated in this proc­ess is the sphere of in­flu­ence of mu­sic.

 
The Musical Interplay of Feeling and Understanding
 
     
     
                                 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                     
                                     
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