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The Technique of
Conveying Truth in Music

Technology of Directing the Music by Means of the Instrument

The music poet’s deep insight into the existing human deficiencies is the reason why he has succeeded in magically producing this perfect, creative knowledge through music in his listener – regardless of the qualification of the performer.

In the score he has instructed the musician only how to use the instrument – in an almost mechanical manner.
The musical script he has used indeed includes the meaning, the semantics, the musical sense, but as a script it is not at all related to the semantics as such.

From the composer’s score, therefore, the musician received only instructions how to use his instrument; by applying them and by implementing the traditional particulars the musical statement resulted all by itself.

Indestructibility of the Musical Statement

Being developed by the great poets of music, this musical script, this kind of encipherment fortunately disallowed the interpreter to seriously destroy the musical statement, or to fundamentally change it.

Freedom and Non-Freedom of the Interpretation in Music

Given the conventional way of writing, the mechanical reading of the musical script rules out such risk. Likewise, due to its mechanical function, a computer is not aware of the meaning of the data which it stores and transmits, and there is no need for it to be so.
But still it is possible and common indeed, to transmit with its help a meaningful message.

Music Creators as Wise Knowers of the Musical Scene

So, the great creators of music knew how to convey over great spans of time the knowledge contained in their sounding poetry to the listener – despite severe interpretational inadequacies.

This is not at all to say that a musician or an interpreter is not able to have such creative musical experience, too; it only means that – contrary to popular notion – while controlling the instrument as prescribed to him, he need not be able to make a deep musical experience in order to introduce a true music lover to the reality of music.

The Official and the Secret Knower of Reality

This reminds of standing before a child, wondering and becoming aware of the creative potential manifest in it, while the child’s uncle, who leads it by the hand, has no sense of such wonder.