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The Steps of Cognition

The Systematics of Gaining Knowledge

In its first phase, our process of gaining knowledge in music is of empirical nature.
This is the stage on which we listeners comprehend the outer sounding musical work in terms of its structure.

This empirical comprehension, however, is directly liberated from its narrowness, when our intellect begins to examine the tonal patterns for their actual individual, social and cosmic content – that is, when it evaluates and assesses them.


Our intellect then conveys the results of its evaluation to our self-awareness; and our self-awareness starts, on its own and completely naturally, with perfecting the musical statement – which expresses itself in a functional improvement of our inner-human forces down to the improvement of our physical health.

In doing so, our self-awareness compares the musical insights conveyed by the intellect with its own nature – with our very own insights –, thus putting our own inherent faculties of cognition to natural, musical-creative action.
Here, our self-awareness uses the information of the music reverberating outside as a pattern of association, imperfect though it may be, to stimulate the images of truth, which exist in us already in a latent and more perfect form, to vibrate.

The Creative Stimulation of Pure Cognition

Stimulated in that way, the cognitive faculties of our intellect get creatively active to provide our self-awareness with a more complete, more harmonious picture than the outer musical performance affords.

Thus, by means of the formative forces of our intellect under their control – as their tools, the creative forces of our self-awareness structure the sequence-space, the motif-space, and the musical sound-space from within its own natural harmony, and directed outwardly towards our mind: the natural harmonious function of our inner cosmic social and individual forces, down to the neurophysiological processes of our body.
Finally the concert reverberates in the mind of the “creative music listener” in its perfection.

Enjoying Lively Truth

In this way, our self-awareness, but also our feeling and our understanding are satisfied and enjoy the lively musical truth which now forms a harmonious manifold union in the resounding spaces of our mind.