DEUTSCHE AKADEMIE DER HARMONIE |
DEUTSCHE AKADEMIE DER HARMONIE |
SCIENTIFICALLY INTRODUCING UNIVERSALITY TO ACADEMIC LIFE |
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PART XI |
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INDIRECT AND DIRECT GAINING KNOWLEDGE IN MUSIC |
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Increase of Performance of the Intellect in Music |
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If our intellect wants to increase its performance, it must refine itself structurally. For this, the coordination of our feeling and understanding is of crucial importance; and this coordination in turn is performed by our self-awareness. |
Increase of Structural Density through the Coordination of Feeling and Understanding |
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Consequently, our self-awareness is responsible for the process of condensation and thus, for the increase of performance of our intellect, and it provides the necessary means. |
The Contribution of the Self-Awareness in the Increase of Performance of the Intellect |
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As with our self-awareness, within our intellect, too, we find a different structural density. |
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Where in our intellect the structural density is lower, we recognize our forces of understanding the natural faculty of discrimination of our intellect in their function most distinctly; and this is also from where the refreshing coolness streams into our mind and gives our thinking the crystal-clear musical form. |
Different Structural Densities of the Intellect |
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And where in our intellect the structural density is higher, we identify our forces of feeling, our natural faculty of synthesis, most clearly. And this is also from where the enlivening warmth streams into our mind and gives our thinking the creative flow. |
The Structural Range of the Intellect from Feeling to Understanding |
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A balanced relation between the cognition of unity and of multiplicity in a musical work during the creative process of music itself, as well as during the music hearing requires a balanced relation between the feeling and the understanding of the composer during his creative process: it is therefore based on the integration of his intellect. |
A Balanced Relation between Diversity and Unity in Music |
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If, for example, in the process of creating music his feeling predominates in the composer, the density of information is higher, and the risk arises that, due to the density being too high, the diversity inherent in the composition is not perceived by his listener. |
Balanced Function of the Composer’s Feeling and Understanding |
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If, however, his understanding predominates in the composer during his creative process, then the musical density of the work is lower and the aspect of diversity dominates over unity. Thus, there is danger that the unity of the composition is not perceived by his listener. |
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Any kind of musical cognition which indeed rests on the comprehension of the musical formative forces of the motif, the melody, the sequence, and the harmony is exclusively based on the integrated functioning of our intellect. |
The Functioning of the Intellect in Music |
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