| Summary: | The revolution that affected the Western thought during the 20th century also involved music,
the way it is made and listened to. If music can be called by definition «art of sounds», on one hand,
being thus part of those activities which are purely human, on the other hand one should think
that, likely and maybe more manifestly than other arts, music can express itself as a mean to take
the human being out from him/herself. This can result evidently in the abundance of sacred and
ritualistic music that we can find in our world and history. We propose hereby an interpretation
of the musical phenomenon through which such a twofold guise (and function?) can be analysed,
using the pattern traced by G. Deleuze and F. Guattari, mostly in A Thousand Plateaus. To this end,
we will start from what seems to be the material on (with) which music acts: the sound and the
effect that a repeated sound produces, namely, the refrain.
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