Writer and art critic, Raymond Bouyer (1862-1939?) was a prolific music chronicler especially for Le Ménestrel from 1898 to 1939. Questioning in particular the practice of musical criticism, Bouyer published in Le Ménestrel in 1909 a series of articles on the situation of music criticism facing the history of art criticism. Alluding to the Greek world, which has occupied the minds of musicians for some time, the critic turns to a genealogy of criticism to draw a number of conclusions about modern criticism, recalling that it has at least one constant: self-referentiality (“in spite of the progress of erudition, every era of art judges from its point of view... it’s human!”).