musique

la musique (FR N-F) music, the art of combining sounds according to certain rules, which vary from era to era and culture to culture, and of organizing their duration; production of such works of art, either written or performed. Music served primal functions and needs from the earliest cultures: lullabies, hymns and songs to God(s), laments, serenades, work songs, and marches, for example. Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) writes: » For most people it [music] is, as Victor Hugo said, an exhalation of…