THEORETICAL FUNDAMENTALS

Nature’s Laws of
Harmony in the
Microcosm of Music

MUSIC + BRAIN
Part 1   •   Part 2

Chronomedicine

Music as a Harmonic
Medical Data Carrier

The Special Status of the
Ear in the Organism

The Ear as a
Medical Instrument

The Significance of the
Soul to Medicine

The Significance of
our Consciousness
to Medicine

The Significance of the
Soul to Human Evolution

Scientists of Tuebingen discover the Brain Regions responsible for
Self Awareness

The Future of Pharmaceutics

Peter Hübner

 

 






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Peter Hübner – Nature’s Laws of Harmony in the Microcosm of Music



Naturalness in Music


Un­til now, I have re­peat­edly re­ferred to the natu­ral laws of har­mony in the mi­cro­cosm of mu­sic, the com­po­si­tional ap­pli­ca­tion of which leads to natu­rally struc­tured mu­sic. To­day, the con­cept of natu­ral­ness in mu­sic is sub­ject to many mis­un­der­stand­ings, and I would like to go into this in more de­tail for this rea­son – and be­cause this will form a bet­ter basis for the un­der­stand­ing of Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic®.

Through­out all time, great schol­ars in the well-known high civi­li­sa­tions of the world have de­manded that mu­sic re­flect na­ture’s laws of har­mony and edu­cate man­kind in natu­ral­ness.
Dur­ing the eve­ry-day life of such high civi­li­sa­tions mu­sic strove to­wards com­plete natu­ral har­mony with the twit­ter­ing of the birds, with the whis­per­ing of the waves, with the rustle of the leaves in the wind, with the course of the stars and with the de­vel­op­ment of the peo­ple – from ear­li­est youth up to old age.
As man has be­come es­tranged from na­ture, so has his mu­sic be­come un­natu­ral – in­deed, man­kind’s great think­ers claim that the loss of natu­ral har­mony in mu­sic is the cause of man’s es­trange­ment from na­ture.

If in our pre­sent time of eco­logi­cal crises, the natu­ral knowl­edge about the har­mony of life is ob­scured from man’s view, it should come as no sur­prise that the con­tem­po­rary mu­sic in­dus­try is also pre­domi­nantly striv­ing to­wards the ex­cite­ment of men­tal ten­sion, su­per­fi­cial sen­sa­tions and bod­ily feel­ings – whether it be avant-garde within the frame­work of in­tel­lec­tual com­po­si­tion tech­niques, or in the beat and pop scene, where the un­for­tu­nate chil­dren – in this, our age of eco­logi­cal world de­struc­tion – are crying af­ter the lost natu­ral har­mony of life and of mu­sic.

We must de­vote our un­di­vided at­ten­tion to this fu­ture gen­era­tion’s des­per­ate cry for natu­ral har­mony.

“Every tone or sound has, to some degree, a rich internal life.
One can hear it and also make it even more audible.
This elemental internal life of a tone or sound can be most meaningfully described as the microcosm of music.”
Peter Hübner

We must con­cern our­selves in­ten­sively with the in­ter­nal con­nec­tions be­tween na­ture and mu­sic – we should lis­ten into the hid­den world of sound of the natu­ral mi­cro­cosm of mu­sic and look there for the natu­ral laws of har­mony, with the help of which to­day’s mu­sic could be freed from its syn­the­tic rhyth­mic fixa­tion and its dis­so­nance.

It is very well-known that, apart from the de­nial of food or of love, noth­ing af­fects our emo­tional life as pow­er­fully as mu­sic does.
For pre­cisely this rea­son we in the mu­sic field should strive to­wards that which the ecol­ogy move­ment is to­day striv­ing for through­out the world in other ar­eas too: we in the mu­sic in­dus­try must com­mit our­selves to the sur­vival of na­ture.
Eve­ry tone or sound has, to some de­gree, a rich in­ter­nal life. One can hear it and also make it even more au­di­ble.

“Not only the pitch but also the rhyth­mic move­ments of all fine tones within tones or sounds are
con­stantly chang­ing, and no sin­gle
pat­tern is ever re­peated.”

Peter Hübner





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