Objectivity of organic unity

Organic unity, that is the key of musical quality, is largely based on mind. It is not for nothing that old Greeks held music for a sort of mathematics. Therefore, as the mind is universal, the quality of organic unity is similarly universal; or with other words, we can speak of objectivity of organic unity, which is why good music is necessarily also popular – to some degree. It is true that we initially react differently when exposed to the same musical phrases and ideas. However, when we hear them in context of the composition, the inherent relations in which they stand to each other tends to make them uniformly understood, regardless of different listeners and contexts of receiving. And the more complex a piece is, the more this is so. Organic unity, and especially of a complex whole, tends to overcome subjectivity with which we react on its separate parts. Completely the opposite of todays affirmed outlooks, complexity doesn’t lower popularity of the piece, but actually boosts universal appeal.

All said we probably know from experience: until we are not yet acquired with the whole melody, it’s beginning can look common. But as we get to know with the whole melody, suddenly all of it’s parts, including those that we on the first listening experienced as common, look very beautiful. That’s because after having seen the whole, we understood it’s every singular part, while on the first listening we didn’t’ understand those parts. I can tell of my own experience of this kind that I had with Schindler’s List theme of John Williams. It’s beginning looked to me quite cliché and uninteresting, but the development have revealed to me the whole idea, the particular emotion of proud sorrow, and than the beginning also, as a part of that idea, carried that same emotion for me.