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THEORETICAL FUNDAMENTALS

UNIVERSAL
MUSIC THEORY 2

IV.
THE LIVING EXAMPLE
OF THE MUSICAL COGNITION OF TRUTH

The Example of the
Composer in the
Cognitive Process in Music

Fixed Principles in the Process of Gaining
Knowledge in Music

The Stream of Musical
Gaining Knowledge

The Process of Musical Consideration

Streams of Energy and Intelligence in the
Process of Gaining
Knowledge in Music

The Inner Logic of the
Musical Process
of Knowing

The Musical Creator
Carries his Natural Responsibility

The Listener’s Freedom from Fate

 

Peter Hübner
Founder of the
Micro Music Laboratories

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Theoretical Fundamentals
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PART   IV
     
 
THE LIVING EXAMPLE OF THE MUSICAL COGNITION OF TRUTH
     
         
 
The Listener’s Freedom from Fate


   
 
In the per­ma­nent con­flict with the forces of fate the com­poser gradu­ally and dis­creetly pre­pares his lis­tener to de­sire more and more per­sonal in­de­pend­ence from the forces of fate. Fi­nally, the mu­si­cal crea­tor guides his lis­tener into the world of the free, into the realms of those great men who stand above fate.

 
The Musical Process of Knowing with Beethoven and Brahms
 
 
And so, some­one who strug­gles with the in­flu­ences of the en­vi­ron­ment in the rou­tine of his day-to-day life, turns into some­one who has real­ized and ex­peri­enced within him­self that it is pos­si­ble to per­son­ally mas­ter the pow­ers of one’s fate.
A com­poser par­ticu­larly suc­cess­ful in this mu­si­cal proc­ess of know­ing, of man con­quering the forces of fate, is Beethoven – and as his heir: Brahms.

   
 
In their time, these two great mu­si­cal poets had clearly iden­ti­fied the mass move­ment of the in­di­vid­ual capitulating to en­vi­ron­men­tal, so­cial, and eco­logi­cal in­flu­ences – a fa­tal trend which grew from the reli­gious glo­ri­fi­ca­tion of suf­fer­ing.
In their mu­sic, they out­lined ways and means of reso­lutely fight­ing and glo­ri­ously win­ning over such self-de­struc­tive, pessimistic at­ti­tudes to­wards life, and their sym­pho­nies are shin­ing tokens of this noble hu­man re­spon­si­bil­ity be­ing car­ried out.

 
The Musical Victory over Pessimism and Glorification of Suffering
 
 
While Mozart, for ex­ample, ex­pands the love of life of the lis­tener to his per­sonal ex­peri­ence of im­mor­tal­ity, Beethoven and Brahms reach the same high goal by in­di­vidu­ally con­quering fate. Thus, they point out a way which, at their time and to the day, is re­garded as the way of the reso­lute ac­tion – the war­rior’s way to the per­sonal re­ali­za­tion of free­dom.

 
Mozart’s Musical Path towards the Knowledge of Immortality
 
 
While Mozart dances with his lis­tener on light feet through the ranks of the forces of fate and fi­nally tran­scends the limits of fate, Beethoven and Brahms teach the lis­tener to fight fate, but to fi­nally rec­og­nize it as a fully auto­no­mous, co­op­er­at­ing power, and to make it a friend.

 
Dancing through the Forces of Fate in Mozart’s Music
 
 
And this per­sonal, sys­tem­atic ac­cep­tance of the forces of fate, of those in­di­vid­ual, so­cial and eco­logi­cal in­flu­ences of the en­vi­ron­ment pressing on us, se­cures the lis­tener the un­hin­dered course through the con­fu­sion of his time, and it teaches him to over­come fate: to tran­scend it – teaches him the very per­sonal friend­ship with the mighty fate.

 
Fight and Friendship with the Forces of Fate in Beethoven’s and Brahms
 
     
     
                                   
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                     
                                     
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