I am publishing here the text of a communication presented at the Genres Literary and Music Forms Colloquium, which took place in November 2009 at the University of Bquite-Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand. In a colloquium devoted to reflection on parents and analogies between ‘genres’ or textual and musical ‘shapes’, I wanted to look at the figure of the one who is the excellent reader of both literary and musical text, and its interpreter: the translator, and the interpreter...