Too many silences in this book about music

Lola Salem

HISTORY REBELS AGAINST DIGESTS. It baulks at sweeping generalisations, pouts at dogmas and grudgingly tolerates nuances. That is why the concept of the canon came in handy. Short of time to consider human creation and activity in full, students and teachers find refuge in trusted common references, assiduously curated across generations. Not only because these are representative of a specific period, but also because they offer insights that transcend their time and, in literature and the arts especially, something beautiful and admirable. In the crowded field of bite-sized annals, music rarely gets equal billing with the rest of art history. Compendiums on visual arts, for example, are plentiful; but a concise, illuminating reader on music’s evolution remains hard to find. When I entered the Maîtrise de Radio France aged ten…

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