Music beyond the
Insights of
Humanities and
Natural Sciences
The Effect of Music in
the Field of the
Humanities
The Philosophy
of Music
The Holistic
Musical Gaining
of Knowledge
The Power of
Musical Expression
Levels of
Knowledge
in Music
Since music as such – the aspect of pure music in the sounding event – from inside never goes beyond the mind and also, strictly speaking, never reaches the mind since the mind only represents the outermost boundary of music, one may state that pure music, by its true nature, is not even a part of the humanities but belongs to the field of the science of the self, the science of the core of human life, or at least to the field of the science of the intellect.
However, the mind in the form of the musical sound-space represents the outermost boundary of music, just as smoke represents the outermost boundary of fire; and in that respect at least the effect of music belongs to the field of humanities.
The philosophy of music has its basis in the music lover – in his personal love for music. Since music is able to describe the subjective and the objective reality, it is able to express truth.
Therefore, it is actually man’s love of truth that makes music so attractive to him, because the language of music, and with it the musical description of truth through the musical artist – but also the musical gaining knowledge by the listener – is much more complete than any other consideration of reality in common human language, not to speak of actually gaining knowlegde through our colloquial language.
Because of the power of its expression the musical description of the reality of our life appeals to our feeling much more than common speech, and moreover, because of the complexity of its flow of information, the language of music is able to satisfy the understanding in its search for truth much more profoundly than the spoken word.
“Music is greater revelation than all wisdom and all philosophy.”Beethoven
Moreover, the process of abstraction of any mental-spiritual impressions, as well as the process of making them concrete, can be mastered systematically and completely through the means of music.
Therefore, a great art of gaining inner and outer knowledge lies hidden in music.
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