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THE SECRET OF MUSIC
The Secret Exchange of Experiences
of the Listener with
the Creative Form of the
Music Creator
Being Familiar with Music
Music bears many a secret; to someone, therefore, who is not practised in gaining knowledge in music, music often appears withdrawn and strange in many ways.
To the initiate, however, it is so familiar in many ways because it shares its secrets with him.
The familiarity with music comes about by the secret flow of truth between the composer and his music listener.
If music is a secret, then only in this sense; because something one does not know is not a secret but just something unknown, while a secret is some knowledge one shares with someone else or with a few, and which is not talked around in the general public.
Gathering Musical Truth without the Mass of Music Consumers
The secret of music, therefore, lies primarily in the discreet association of a true music lover with the creative gestalt of a true creator of music, and it manifests itself in that silent dialogue which takes place between the composer and his trustful music listener, a dialogue which escapes the music-consuming masses around the music listener.
In his personal exchange of experiences with the musical creator, for the true music listener the neighboring listener simply does not exist.
To the knower only his very personal dialogue with the creative gestalt of the great master of tones exists, who conveys to him, through the interpreter, his own insights into human life.
However, this is only the first stage of music listening, and the composer aims at something more, something higher.
Control over the Process of Knowing
With the help of his musical statements the tone poet stimulates one after another specific spaces of cognition within the listener to vibrate and he determines the proportions of the reverberating spaces in such a manner that they vibrate harmoniously towards each other and with each other.
When he created the musical work, the music poet had set these inner, reverberating, cognitive spaces into vibration within himself, too, and so he knows their effect on the individual personality, on the individual soul.
The Listener Finds Himself Creative
Now, in his personal experience while listening to the music, his listener perceives these reverberating spaces as his own inner tone-world, as his own inner creative world, as his own, very original, inner, living world, as his manifold self, as his one and all.
So, according to the pattern laid down by the musical creator, he examines his manifold creative talent, his true creative potential in the swinging roundelay of his inner qualities, and he realizes that he is creative.
Human Forces in Perfect Education
In that moment, the creative gestalt of the great music creator speaks to him not from outside anymore but speaks within the music listener himself as the voice of his very own conscience, as the voice of his very own creative power.
So, in a very discreet, secret manner, the music listener discovers the multiplicity of life spread before him in his innermost experience.