Correction de la synthèse : the power of music

Correction de la synthèse : the power of music

Suggestion d’introduction:

Every single human knows what music is, it is incredibly various and omnipresent today, so let’s apprehend its existence under some aspects: first we will try to draw a time line, then to see what social relationships can be woven thanks to music, and finally we will say a word about it as a humane legacy.

We will find information and arguments in the two following documents: an excerpt (= an extract) from Adam Ockleford’s essay entitled “How we make sense of music”, published in 2017, and a page from history.com written by Evan Andrews and updated in 2018.

The time line

• 43,000 years ago
• 4,000 years ago
• 1,400 BC (= 3,400 years ago)
• Socrates (=  5th century BC = Before Christ)
• Schopenhauer = a  German philosopher of the 19th c. (= modern times)
• Today with digital means to preserve, to create, to carry, to transfer ….. (doc2)

The social interactions

• Music in films = social sharing of an intimate experience
• Dementia and autism = a means to repair social relations that are damaged
• “spans cultures, continents, centuries” = a media that favors mutual understanding
• “empathy …..” = a tool to calm down hard feelings / negative impulses

Conclusion

To pass over / from generation to generation / universal language / to belong to the world heritage / Voyager spacecraft carries records with music among other elements to represent humanity.

A few quotes:

“Without music, life is a journey through a desert” , Pat Conroy, an American novelist.

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”   Friedrich Nietzsche

Grammaire

Traduction    depuis toujours         sujet  + has / have + always + participle passé

La musique existe depuis toujours = Music has always been present.

Traduire :

L’homme a toujours essayé de créer, de faire des œuvres singulières.

Cette flute en ivoire a traversé les siècles.

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