WORLD MUSIC COUNCIL

WORLD MUSIC COUNCIL

CONSTITUTION

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The Historical Background

Preamble

§ 1
Name & Headquarters

§ 2
Motivation

§ 3
Criteria for Success

§ 4
Activities

§ 5
Status

§ 6
The Acting Board of Trustees

§ 7
Supervisory Board

§ 8
The Committees

§ 9
Membership

§ 10
Honorary Membership

§ 11
Active Membership

§ 12
Co-operative &
Communicative Membership

§ 13
Acquisition and Loss of
Membership

§ 14
Rights and Duties of Members

“The man who has no music in himself
nor is not moved with the concord of sweet sounds
is fit for treason, stratagems and spoils:
The motions of his spirit are dull as night
and his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.”

Shakespeare

THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF
THE WORLD MUSIC COUNCIL

Based on the experience that even great ideologies and forms of organisation which are materially richly equipped are transient – if they do not observe and support the principles of natural harmony,

and also based on the practical knowledge of the concrete consequences of the loss of such simple knowledge, particularly among the leading public figures, as well as the people,

1. free citizens of the world
   
   have established a constitution
   
   with the aim of harmony
   
   in the whole world,

whose non-material declaration of belief in natural harmony of the individual within himself, with his fellow men and with nature is brought to bear as opposed to disharmony and inhuman destructive practice,

whereby they base their support on that cultural genius of the Classical Composers which until this day for many centuries has acquired undivided appreciation – indeed whose creations have become the quintessence of respected human culture beyond all religious, ideological and linguistic barriers.