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Originally Posted by Seraphim
Anyone can talk about repeating patterns and formulaic music but until I hear music written today that begins to approach the quality and depth of music by Mozart and Beethoven these theories don't really amount to much.
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Hearing the quality of music written today not only depends on the music, but also on how you hear it. Unless you give an objective definition of quality and depth there's nothing one can "prove" there. It's just that you have a subjective opinion, which is fine. I like Mozart's Requiem too.
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The end result demonstrates (rather painfully) that the degree of knowledge and analytical skill is not positively correlated with creative genius.
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Musical knowledge doesn't make a musical genius, I agree. But the fact that most musically knowledgeable people aren't considered musical geniuses doesn't mean there's no correlation. Just no simple causality.