Musical Education without Basis
Reality-Related
Basis of a Modern Musical Education
Training
the Structural Refinement of
the Musical Tools
of Cognition
Limitations
of Conventional Musical Education
Conventional
musical education so far confined itself to teach the superficial tone patterns
of music.
Hence, it was barred from further fathoming the musical meaning which discloses
itself only deep within the consciousness of the music lover the budding
musician.
This lack of inner-human dynamics results in the limited value of conventional music-education: its inability to bring about the natural and perfect process of creating music within each music student.
"No composition has a long life-span if it does not show inspiration as well as professional competence."
Johannes Brahms
By its very essence, however, classical music represents the central core of musical creativity: by means of the musical process of gaining knowledge, the musical logic takes the student systematically to the origin of the inner-human creative process and purposely stimulates the creative human forces within consciousness to vibrate.
The process of gaining knowledge in music is of threefold benefit: firstly, it is the development of general cognition of truth; secondly, an educational system to systematically refine our means of gaining knowledge; and thirdly, a practical exercise to handle them skilfully.
© AAR EDITION INTERNATIONAL 1982