Eve­ry field of know­ing, eve­ry level of knowl­edge in mu­sic, has its very own char­ac­ter­is­tic fires of cog­ni­tion, and the mu­sic lover passes them in his pro­gress of gain­ing knowl­edge.
As he pro­ceeds, he enjoys their mani­fold warmth, their bril­liant light, and the mul­ti­fari­ous forms and shapes, which the flames of the mu­si­cal con­vey­ance of truth paint into the re­ver­ber­at­ing space in the dark of the night.

On higher mu­si­cal lev­els of or­der the cog­ni­tive fires burn with more re­fined flame pat­terns and with a more subtle, more bright, and more pow­er­ful radi­ance.

In the field of the mu­si­cal sound-space the fires of knowl­edge burn with the bright­ness of pro­tons, elec­trons, and neu­trons, and they appear as the fire­works of the mu­si­cal mo­lecu­lar struc­tures – an il­lus­tra­tion of na­ture un­enli­vened.

The motif-tech­nique de­scribes the in­di­vid­ual un­fold­ment, and the ex­pres­sion of this de­scrip­tion is the melody.

Thus, the melody rep­re­sents the very in­di­vid­ual course of life, and when in the po­lyph­ony many melo­dies si­mul­ta­ne­ously un­fold and unite, then it may occur that the lis­tener iden­ti­fies his per­sonal life-path with the vari­ous un­fold­ing mo­tifs be­cause he finds his in­ner po­ten­tial of un­fold­ment de­scribed in them.

As he lis­tens to the mu­sic, he treads in­di­vid­ual paths of un­fold­ment, uni­ver­sal paths maybe, or even cos­mic paths of enlight­en­ment which – with­out the outer stimu­la­tion through the clas­si­cal mu­sic – he would not walk so read­ily from fear of ap­pear­ing insane.

On the level of the mu­si­cal motif-space the fires of cog­ni­tion burn with a bright­ness that char­ac­ter­izes in­di­vid­uals in the proc­ess of their un­fold­ment, and one is re­minded of the radi­ance of a child that is happy about a spe­cial gift, but also of the bright­ness of some­one who just had a deep in­sight.
So, many lights dawn to the lis­tener dur­ing the ac­tions of the mo­tifs, be­cause the light­ing of ever new mu­si­cal fires of cog­ni­tion ac­counts for the radi­ance of the motif move­ments in mu­sic.

Hence the melody is the great cir­cle of shin­ing in­sights which mark the stages of enlight­en­ment of the in­di­vid­ual course of life.
In the clas­si­cal works of the great tone poets these fires of cog­ni­tion reach to the height of the mu­si­cal event and into the depth of the mu­si­cal un­der­stand­ing and ex­peri­enc­ing, just as the sun and the moon rise on their orbits and shed their light.

Know­ing the un­fold­ment of the motif into the melody is the knowl­edge of a mu­si­cal path of cog­ni­tion de­signed by the com­poser.
And by iden­tifying his own course of life with the course of a motif, the melody, the lis­tener sets out on the ad­ven­tur­ous jour­ney to mu­si­cal knowl­edge.