Profound Musicological Research
in the Microcosm of Music Peter Hübner “Space and Time in Music” |
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Excerpt from Peter Hübner's Book: “Natural Music Creation”” | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Two Ways of Experiencing Space |
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Space-awareness and space-feeling are components of knowledge which are experienced from the level of the mind and which are therefore not at all directly related to any aspect of the environment. |
Space-Awareness and Space-Feeling as Components of Knowledge |
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The distance of things separated in time or space corresponds to the phenomenon of potential energy in nature and creates the space-awareness of the understanding. The change of the distance between things separated in time or space corresponds to the phenomenon of kinetic energy in nature; it predominantly stimulates the feeling, and from the feeling level it generates the experience of space through the senses. |
Potential and Kinetic Energy in the Musical Sound-Space |
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Thus, we distinguish two kinds of spatial experience: the “static” experience of space through the analytical understanding and the “dynamic” experience of space through the synthesizing feeling. When listening to music, these two phenomena of spatial experience always appear together and in mutual dependence; sometimes, the one dominates, and sometimes the other. |
“Static” and “Dynamic” Experience of Space |
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The interplay of feeling and understanding generated in this process is the sphere of influence of music. |
The Musical Interplay of Feeling and Understanding |
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