Is music to talk?
If we think about music, does the latter have the faculty of thinking?
What makes it different from other arts?
These are just a few of the questions that Claude Hagège answers in his latest work,
Music or Death
(Éditions Odile Jacob).
The linguist, the word expert, lover of notes, delivers 200 pages of fascinating reflections, with multiple historical, philosophical and sometimes metaphysical ramifications.
LE FIGARO.
- Music has always been part of your life.
Why did you wait so long before devoting a book to it?
Claude HAGÈGE.
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I put off writing this book for a long time because I did not see the need for it.
I thought that I was not a musicologist and that it was not for me to write about music.
But it was futile to resist.
Music has been part of my life since childhood.
Today, I have a quartet mixing professionals and amateurs with whom we perform every year.
And when
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