This reference book goes far beyond the narrow framework of Music Education, although the restless music educator will find here original ideas and inspired applications to enrich the range of activities aimed at the student audience.

The author not only suggests that we make music before learning notes – a position that aligns with the concerns of other like-minded individuals in a child-oriented and creativity-focused pedagogy – but goes a step further: he invites us to follow the semantic adventure of the concept of play intertwined with that of music and the musician.

After addressing the different issues faced by an educator – What instruments should we build? Should we create scores? Must we finalize the execution of a project?… – the author describes the stages of a progressive pedagogical process starting from a large number of specific examples, thus laying the foundations of "musical awakening."