ABSTRACT
“Epic”: Before qualifying a certain style of poetic or musical expression, the word first described past legends in which heroes proved their worth. The hero at the center of the Musical Mosaic you have just read is the generic human, it is you and me. Subjects in a world of objects, as some scientists would say; subjects in a world of subjects, according to certain philosophers, to the seers and artists who are constantly struck by a world, a History, lives that have meaning, individually and collectively. It is you, it is me. Tonal harmony invites us to become the heroes of an epic tale known as a “musical composition.”
