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La musique comme paradis
Jacques Drillon

Unlike painting, music leaves thinkers practically speechless, aside from a few brilliant exceptions. This intellectual sterility is announced by its most visible symptom: no one – bar none this time – would ever think to establish a distinction between the music you listen to and the music you play. And yet, the notion that music is the only one of the arts to offer two such different practices is a striking realization.

Those who perform music are exhausted; those who listen to it, exalted. Is that divergence not worthy of interest?

In this essay, Jacques Drillon explores music, musicians, and the unique happiness that playing music provides.

What is music? And who are musicians? This essay explores music’s specificity amongst the arts, as well as musicians, singers, and the unique happiness of performing music.

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  • Publication date : 15/11/2018
  • Size : 14 x 20,5 cm, 80 p., 10,00 EUR €
  • ISBN 978-2-283-03194-0
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