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INDIRECT AND DIRECT GAINING KNOWLEDGE IN MUSIC |
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Fundamentals of Modern Musicology
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Only if the science of music concentrates in essence on the systematic exploration of our self-consciousness – when it succeeds in performing this research program with scientifically-objectively verifiable success – only then will it truly unite with music and make the genuine knowledge of the origin, essence, and goal of music universally available.
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Making the Genuine Understanding of Music Generally Accessible |
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Indeed, our self is nature-given, is inborn to man; but this does not mean automatically that everyone has discovered his self-awareness, this basis of the art of sound, and brought it to unfoldment within himself.
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Spiritual Awakening of the Music Creator |
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But also for the full use of our intellect, our feeling and understanding, as well as our inner sense of hearing, the development of our self-awareness is of fundamental importance. For it is our self-awareness, through which energy and intelligence flow to our inner organs of cognition – the energy and intelligence that is needed to truly and authentically comprehend the work of music.
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The Significance of the Self-Awareness for Our Tools of Cognition |
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The state of deep sleep – as different from the state of restful alertness – is only an expression of the fact that our inner sense of hearing and our intellect are insufficiently nourished. In such a case we are absolutely ill-prepared for authentic music-listening – not to speak of music-creating – from the very onset of our cognizing faculty, since we are asleep at the very depth of musical creativity.
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Beyond Musical Creativity |
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Therefore, we can recognize the inner flow of natural musical-creative unfoldment in pieces at best; our “musical insights” can at best consist of sounding, finite fragments from the periphery of an originally complete music.
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