It’s very hard to write about music in fiction without ending up sounding like a music critic or a musicologist. What can you say? “The adagio was sublimely moving”; “Everyone who heard the symphony acknowledged it as a work of genius”; “His technical dexterity at the keyboard made the audience gasp.” It doesn’t quite fly – the author is asking the reader to take too much on trust.
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