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Juji I agree in some way with what you have said, but you have to remember that 'taste' is highly reasoned in many conscious and subconscious ways.
If I listen to something I don't initially enjoy, it would be more profitable for me to musically study it than it would be to research the composers history and philosophy. Ultimately whether or not a composer was fantasically intellectual or had a very specific reason for writing the work that they did or not, it doesn't matter to me. I would prefer to base my opinion of a piece of music on the merits of the piece itself.
If Stephen Hawking wrote a terrible piece of music, I would not go out and buy his books solely on the basis that I should do my research! In my opinion music should speak for itself; it is not the philosophy or the history, but the outcome.
If I found out that Beethoven's 5th symphony was written about a piece of string for example, it wouldn't marr my appreciation of it.
I know this may be off at a tangeant considering the original topic thread, but I thought I'd at least try to add something..!
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