Various Artists - Jol (2023) Hi-Res

The scholar Jean-Jacques Nattiez, while engaged in trying to take apart superficial ideas on thai so mysterious matter, which is the meaning of Music, researcher Jean-Jacques Nattiez, recalls an experiment held in a class of children. Alter playing ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice' by Dukas (quite known by most of the big audience thanks to that marvellous movie which is Fantasy, except by the children), Nattiez asks the young listeners to tel1
"what happens " in that music. The children take different sides of opinion. According to one of them, we linci ourselves "in a toyshop at night", "all is calm", "suddenly a toy awakens" and "a tin soldier is courting a doli": however, "at dawn the shop keeper returns, and everything is at its piace". For another, "a man is calmly walking in the street when some dogs arrive", "he runs away as far as a tree" and alter a few obstacles on the road, finally "the dogs leave". Nattiez comments : obviously, "it would have been as astonishing lor Goethe's poetry to come to the children's mind as it would have been lor a monkey in front of a computer to have typed 'The Name of the Rose". Yet, in the majority of the childlike descriptions, Nattiez identifies some common and recognizable circum­ stances: the initial stasis, a first event, a dialectic among the things and reactions that are occurring, and lastly, a comeback to the stasis.