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THEORETICAL FUNDAMENTALS

UNIVERSAL
MUSIC THEORY 1

XII.
MUSIC AND SPEECH

Speech

The Superiority of Music
over the Language of Today

Fundamental Research

The Organ of Speech

The Smithy of Thought

Sovereignty over Bound and Free Creativity

The Dimension of
Creative Unfoldment

Control over the World
of Thinking

Content and Form,
Meaning and Structure

The Share of the
Senses of Perception
in the Process of
Gaining Knowledge

The Language of Music

How Our Ancestors
Used Language

Conclusions from the
Ancient Records

The Legacy of
Our Ancestors

The Task Set by
Our Ancestors

 

Peter Hübner
Founder of the
Micro Music Laboratories

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Theoretical Fundamentals
  PART   XII            
  MUSIC AND SPEECH            
         
 
The Superiority of Music over the Language of Today


   
 
With­out exhausting its in­ner breath, mu­sic to­day is much more suc­cess­ful in bring­ing the flow of in­for­ma­tion to a level where our lan­guage would bor­der on the gro­tesque. Thus, mu­sic can com­mu­ni­cate even to the sim­ple lis­tener on the level of his feel­ing and un­der­stand­ing si­mul­ta­ne­ously.

 
Integrated Communication through Feeling and Understanding
 
 
Here, we find a prac­ti­cal su­pe­riority of mu­sic to the lan­guage of to­day. Whereas hu­man lan­guage pre­domi­nantly op­er­ates flatly and with categoric mean­ings to convey in­for­ma­tion, mu­sic has the di­men­sion of the mani­foldly struc­tured mu­si­cal sound-space at its dis­posal.

 
The Capacity of Information in Language and Music
 
 
There­fore, mu­sic al­lows for a far greater ca­pac­ity of in­for­ma­tion, a far greater den­sity of in­for­ma­tion than our lan­guage. Be­sides, mu­sic takes into ac­count the men­tal-spiri­tual, ana­lyti­cal abil­ity of to­day’s man.

   
 
Just as a pic­ture is com­pre­hended much more ac­cu­rately and in­com­para­bly faster – more di­rectly – through the sense of sight than through a verbal de­scrip­tion of the pic­ture, a truth may be com­mu­ni­cated much more pre­cisely and faster through the me­dium of mu­sic than through the spo­ken word.

 
Density of Information in Speech and Music
 
 
The value of hu­man speech, as com­pared to the lan­guage of mu­sic, de­mands a pro­found in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

   
     
     
                                 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                     
                                     
  With kind permission of AAR EDITION INTERNATIONAL
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