Un­til now, I have re­peat­edly re­ferred to the natu­ral laws of har­mony in the mi­cro­cosm of mu­sic, the com­po­si­tional ap­pli­ca­tion of which leads to natu­rally struc­tured mu­sic. To­day, the con­cept of natu­ral­ness in mu­sic is sub­ject to many mis­un­der­stand­ings, and I would like to go into this in more de­tail for this rea­son – and be­cause this will form a bet­ter basis for the un­der­stand­ing of Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^®.

Through­out all time, great schol­ars in the well-known high civi­li­sa­tions of the world have de­manded that mu­sic re­flect na­ture’s laws of har­mony and edu­cate man­kind in natu­ral­ness.
Dur­ing the eve­ry-day life of such high civi­li­sa­tions mu­sic strove to­wards com­plete natu­ral har­mony with the twit­ter­ing of the birds, with the whis­per­ing of the waves, with the rustle of the leaves in the wind, with the course of the stars and with the de­vel­op­ment of the peo­ple – from ear­li­est youth up to old age.
As man has be­come es­tranged from na­ture, so has his mu­sic be­come un­natu­ral – in­deed, man­kind’s great think­ers claim that the loss of natu­ral har­mony in mu­sic is the cause of man’s es­trange­ment from na­ture.

If in our pre­sent time of eco­logi­cal crises, the natu­ral knowl­edge about the har­mony of life is ob­scured from man’s view, it should come as no sur­prise that the con­tem­po­rary mu­sic in­dus­try is also pre­domi­nantly striv­ing to­wards the ex­cite­ment of men­tal ten­sion, su­per­fi­cial sen­sa­tions and bod­ily feel­ings – whether it be avant-garde within the frame­work of in­tel­lec­tual com­po­si­tion tech­niques, or in the beat and pop scene, where the un­for­tu­nate chil­dren – in this, our age of eco­logi­cal world de­struc­tion – are crying af­ter the lost natu­ral har­mony of life and of mu­sic.

We must de­vote our un­di­vided at­ten­tion to this fu­ture gen­era­tion’s des­per­ate cry for natu­ral har­mony.


We must con­cern our­selves in­ten­sively with the in­ter­nal con­nec­tions be­tween na­ture and mu­sic – we should lis­ten into the hid­den world of sound of the natu­ral mi­cro­cosm of mu­sic and look there for the natu­ral laws of har­mony, with the help of which to­day’s mu­sic could be freed from its syn­the­tic rhyth­mic fixa­tion and its dis­so­nance.

It is very well-known that, apart from the de­nial of food or of love, noth­ing af­fects our emo­tional life as pow­er­fully as mu­sic does.
For pre­cisely this rea­son we in the mu­sic field should strive to­wards that which the ecol­ogy move­ment is to­day striv­ing for through­out the world in other ar­eas too: we in the mu­sic in­dus­try must com­mit our­selves to the sur­vival of na­ture.
Eve­ry tone or sound has, to some de­gree, a rich in­ter­nal life. One can hear it and also make it even more au­di­ble.