La musique et ses instruments
Résumé
As an essential tool to produce musical sounds, a musical instrument is a concentrate of know-how, intimately linked to a musical style, a society, a period. Intrinsically cultural, this object has nevertheless to meet ergonomic constraints and perceptual and aesthetic demands. Even if, across centuries, some instruments have disappeared and some others have appeared or been transformed, the possibilities offered nowadays by the digital technologies oblige us to rethink the concept of instrument. This present book deals with the question of the connections between music and the singular object that produce it.