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- Barthes 1971 (cite)
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Musica practica (chapter, pp. 149-154) starts with
There are two musics (at least so I have always thought):
the music one listens to, the music one plays. These two
musics are two totally different arts, each with its own history,
its own sociology, its own aesthetics, its own erotic; the
same composer can be minor if you listen to him, tre-
mendous if you play him (even badly) - such is Schumann.
similarly then in From Work to Text, p. 162
The history of music (as a practice, not as an
'art') does indeed parallel that of the Text fairly closely:
there was a period when practising amateurs were numerous
(at least within the confines of a certain class) and 'playing'
and 'listening' formed a scarcely differentiated activity;
may be useful for music of friends topic