“These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.” HumansFactsMysteryCreatorSupremeHuman Knowledge Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.” MeanCharacterFactsLanguageMusicMessagesMusic IsUnderstoodCreatorContradictory Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man.” MenLanguageMysteryMusic IsMusicalCreatorSupremeAttributesContradictory Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
