SUN UNIVERSITY |
SCIENTIFICALLY INTRODUCING UNIVERSALITY TO THE UNIVERSITY |
PART V | 35 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
THE PROCESS OF CREATING MUSIC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Perfection of the Formative Forces in Music |
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With his understanding, the listener cognizes the “horizontal” compositional systems of order; with his feeling he grasps the “vertical” musical relations of power. Therefore, the qualities of feeling and understanding are effective on all levels of music: in the world of the sound-space, in the world of the motif, in the world of the sequence, and in the world of the harmony. |
The Path towards more Powerful Formative Forces in Music |
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When these two fundamental qualities of the intellect feeling and understanding are realized by the musician as efficient and mighty formative forces in music, they finally appear before him in their perfection on the level of harmony. |
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The musical sound-space, the world of the inner musical imagination, is equally enlivened by the feeling and by the understanding; and the art of the musician lies particularly in radiating this enlivenment, this lively multiplicity, even into the physical-acoustic space and to enliven it so that the listener comprehends life itself as his own threefold food of knowledge:
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True Enlivenment of the Physical-Acoustic Space The Essential Task of the Musician |
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