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The Inner Mechanics of
Creating Music

The Dimension of Music

The Beginning and End of
Creating Music

The Natural Seatof the
Musical Creator

Control over the
Composition

The Free, Inner,
Formative Will

The Emperor of Music

 

Peter Hübner
Founder of the
Micro Music Laboratories

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  The Inner Mechanics of Creating Music
     
 
The Beginning and End of
Creating Music


   
 
Hereby the en­tire field of cre­at­ing mu­sic is gov­erned by three ba­sic mecha­nisms:
  1. by the mecha­nism of toning-up the com­po­si­tion – in which the self-aware­ness only stimu­lates the in­tel­lect;
  2. by the mecha­nism of con­trol­ling the mu­sic-for­ma­tive pow­ers – in which the self-aware­ness by means of the in­tel­lect de­fines the form with its fac­ulty of un­der­stand­ing, and the in­ner life of the mu­si­cal unity with its fac­ulty of feel­ing, and through its sense of hear­ing lis­tens to the mu­si­cal re­sult on the level of the mind;
  3. by the mecha­nism of toning-down the com­po­si­tion – in which the self-aware­ness calms down the ex­cited in­tel­lect which is ac­tive cre­at­ing mu­sic.

 
The Three Basic Mechanisms for Creating Music
 
 
How­ever, this three­fold mas­ter­ship of cre­at­ing mu­sic not only cov­ers the com­po­si­tion as a whole, but eve­ry sin­gle ele­ment, as well as the groups of ele­ments of the com­po­si­tion – even eve­ry sin­gle over­tone and the com­plete mas­tery of it by the self-aware­ness of the mu­si­cal poet.

 
Coordinating the Diversity
 
 
The in­tel­lect of the mu­si­cal crea­tor is that de­ci­sion-mak­ing fac­ulty which serves his self-aware­ness to achieve two­fold ful­fil­ment, and which there­fore di­rects the en­tire proc­ess of com­pos­ing.

 
The Decision-Making Faculty of the Musical Creator
 
 
Thus, the self-aware­ness, through the feel­ing, de­livers a per­fect lively ba­sic vi­bra­tion to the mind and enli­vens it as the ab­so­lu­te sound-sub­stance. This live, all-em­brac­ing ba­sic vi­bra­tion is a gift from the self, through its in­her­ent feel­ing, to the mind; it breathes life into the mind – that in­ner life which mu­sic re­quires.

 
Fundamental Musical Education
 
 
There­fore it is a fun­da­men­tal step in prac­ti­cal mu­sic edu­ca­tion to de­velop that lively, com­pre­hen­sive, ba­sic vi­bra­tion on the level of the mind, that vi­bra­tion which holds the mu­si­cal work to­gether as a whole, and which pre­vents the ele­ments of the com­po­si­tion from fal­ling apart.

 
Developing the Harmonizing Basic Vibration
 
 
De­vel­op­ing the per­fect, har­mo­niz­ing sound-sub­stance on the level of the mind is based on the sys­tem­atic, sci­en­tifi­cally founded cul­ti­va­tion of our hu­man feel­ing.

 
Consciously Creating Music by Means of the Feeling
 
 
With­out the com­po­nent of feel­ing, and with­out its pur­pose­ful ap­pli­ca­tion un­der the di­rect guid­ance of the self-aware­ness, the com­poser is not able to con­sciously com­pose. Ho­lis­tic, har­mo­ni­ous, pleas­ing, and mean­ing­ful mu­sic would never be stimu­lated to sound within him – let alone be heard inside or even con­veyed out­side.

 
The Heat-Giving Device of Creating Music
 
 
The abil­ity of the in­tel­lect to dis­crimi­nate emo­tion­ally may also be called “the heat-pro­duc­ing device.” It is re­spon­si­ble for dis­solv­ing the re­ver­ber­at­ing form (the struc­ture) of a thought, and it causes the sub­stance (the ma­te­rial as­pect) of a thought – the po­ten­tial of cos­mic think­ing – to domi­nate.
The ra­tional abil­ity of the in­tel­lect to dis­crimi­nate may also be called the “cold-pro­duc­ing device”; it gives the thought its defi­nite form of sound. The sub­stance of the thought be­comes less domi­nant and the outer, sound­ing shape of the thought – the sur­face of the mind – pre­domi­nates.

 
The Cold Producing Device of Creating Music
 
 
The power of our hu­man un­der­stand­ing gen­er­ates the fire­work of mu­sic in its latent form, and also pro­duces our mu­si­cal ideas in the form of in­di­vid­ual flashes of thought – just as the spec­tral col­ours are gen­er­ated from light and in­ter­woven in mani­fold ways.
There­fore it is a fur­ther fun­da­men­tal step in prac­ti­cal mu­sic edu­ca­tion to de­velop, on the level of the mind, that com­pre­hen­sive ba­sic vi­bra­tion which de­ter­mines the mul­ti­plic­ity of the mu­si­cal work right from the be­gin­ning, and which si­mul­ta­ne­ously pre­vents its ele­ments from col­laps­ing and the com­po­si­tion from be­com­ing mo­noto­nous.

 
The Firework of Music
 
 
This de­vel­op­ment of the per­fect, multi-struc­tured sound-sub­stance on the level of the mind is based on the sys­tem­atic, sci­en­tifi­cally founded cul­ti­va­tion of our hu­man un­der­stand­ing.

 
Cultivation of the Creative Understanding
 
 
With­out this com­po­nent of un­der­stand­ing and with­out its well-di­rected ap­pli­ca­tion un­der the di­rect guid­ance of the self-aware­ness, the com­poser is not able to con­sciously com­pose; and ho­lis­tic, har­mo­ni­ous, mani­fold, mean­ing­ful mu­sic would never be stimu­lated within him – let alone be heard inside or even con­veyed out­side.

 
Manifold, Harmonious, Meaningful Music
 
     
     
       
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     
  With kind permission of AAR EDITION INTERNATIONAL
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