Since music as such – the aspect of pure music in the sounding event – from inside never goes beyond the mind and also, strictly speaking, never reaches the mind since the mind only represents the outermost boundary of music, one may state that pure music, by its true nature, is not even a part of the humanities but belongs to the field of the science of the self, the science of the core of human life, or at least to the field of the science of the intellect.

However, the mind in the form of the musical sound-space represents the outermost boundary of music, just as smoke represents the outermost boundary of fire; and in that respect at least the effect of music belongs to the field of humanities.