To explore the musical phenomenon from the inside, to try to highlight its intimate mechanisms in their constitution, their functioning and their perception, to question the musical form as dynamic process, to watch the composer's strategies within the work, to evoke, finally certain major stages of the musical language in evolution, considered as historical - such is the ambition of this work.
The listener who is passionate about music will find here the book that can guide him. Neither a test for professionals nor a work of popularization, it aims, by its understandable vocabulary and by its new way of questioning the musical discourse, to the non-specialist reader wishing to penetrate to the heart of this universe.
André Boucourechliev, one of the most important French composers of his generation, known and appreciated by his works on Schumann, Beethoven and Stravinsky, is a brilliant initiator, with a very personal tone.
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