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The Function of the Fields of Cognition in Music

How then is the object of cognition grasped in the respective musical force-field?

Analyzing the Physical Structure of the Sound

In the beginning we grasp the physical structure of the tone, its inner mechanics, its structural change and its functioning in space and time with our sense of hearing.
We grasp the tone on the level of our mind; for its structure is represented there in the same way as it appears to us already in the acoustic space, where we perceive it with our outer organ of hearing – as far as our outer hearing is functioning, as far as our neurophysiology is able to transmit the information, and as far as our mind as such is able to function.

The Unity of the Composition

One must take into account, however, that, during the process of creating a typically classical musical work, the music – and thus every single tone – a arose within the composer, in his inner space of imagination, only after his mind was stimulated as the absolute sound-substance.
This perfect stimulation guaranteed and guarantees the unity of the composition.

The Primordial Vibration of the Absolute Tone-Substance

In the musical creator every tone of his musical work arises from this level of the absolute tone-substance, and this means practically that, as the composition is created, all tones are directly related to each other in the absolute Now, beyond space and time.

For, in the dynamic process of creating music, it is the primordial vibration of the absolute sound-substance in his mind, that guarantees the composer the reality of this absolute Now – of the absolute simultaneity, of the perfect correlation of all musical parameters – without any separating link of space and time.

The Integrated Field of Perfect Musical Relations

Also, it is this integrated field of perfect musical relationship where the listener later then will localize the world of harmony.

Musical Sequences within and without Space and Time

When the sounds emerge from the absolute sound-substance and advance towards the integrated relation of space and time, then the musical force-fields of the sequences are created – which are anchored beyond space and time in the harmony but which, at the same time, unfold in an integrated space-time relationship in the space and time of musical evolution.

The Integrating Function of the Musical Sequences

Thus, in the musical composition the sequences have a mediating position between the infinite harmony flowing in the absolute Now, and the motifs moving in the field of space and time.

And untiringly, the sequences carry the qualities of the absolute Now into the musical world of the past, present, and future.

So, through their “children”, the motifs, they unfold – from the absolute level of the harmony – the spheres of resounding music in the musical tone-space.
The inherent educational aspect here concerns the natural control of the individual laws by the social laws – under the auspices of the harmony laws of the microcosm of music and of the Creator and almighty Nature respectively.

The Listener Localizes the Absolute Tone-Substance

For the tonal comprehension of the musical work it is very important that the vibration of the absolute tone-substance is localized in the musical work by the listener.
This cognition is supported by the fact that already the sounding musical work is directly based on this cosmic vibration; because the cognition of the absolute tone-substance is able to make it much easier for us listeners to gain the personal insight into the inner musical fields of knowledge.

The Golden Magic Key for Gaining universal Knowledge

Perceiving the absolute sound-substance on the level of the mind is really the golden magic key of gaining universal knowledge.

And who once has made the experience of the absolute tone-substance, he knows that this key is of a very practical, quasi technical nature.

Identification with the Absolute Sound-Substance

The cognition of the absolute sound-substance, that is: the identification of the individual mind with the comprehensive basic vibration of the harmony, or with the basic vibration of cosmic thinking respectively, enables our mind to analyze and synthesize in an integrated manner – to understand and to feel in an integrated manner – and thus to experience and to comprehend simultaneously the inner musical fields of knowledge of the motifs and sequences, but also of the tones and of the infinite field of the harmony within space and time, as well as beyond space and time.