Invent, play, listen to music : This is the subject of this book. It is not a question of considering music as a corpus of scores, with their writing, their music theory, their rules, but as a set of human behaviors characterized by these three verbs.
Composing assumes to find and develop a “musical idea”, that is to say a sound singularity, heard or imagined, which makes you want to repeat it by varying it. This is what a one -year -old child does, in his own way in his sound explorations. In the instrumental game, the sensorimotor relationship with the instrument generates a beam of symbolic dimensions called expression. This referral corresponds to the end of the evolution of sensorimotor to symbolism in young children. Here again, a royal way opens up to musical pedagogy.
Analyze music beyond notes raises problems of methods that are debated within musicology. The controversy, necessary for research, is engaged here between François Delalande and Jean-Jacques Nattiez, an eminent representative of general musicology. The tests gathered here are the result of years of empirical research based on observation and survey. They paved the way for the most current work on the creation processes, on the musical gesture, on listening, which have repercussions for analysis as well as for pedagogy.
