Larry
"Uncle Larry"
Yeah, but I'm curious what you think, too. I mean you can quantify a lot about any composition, say that mathematics explains a lot of the things you can observe or understand about a set or time period of music, looking at intervals and chords and motifs and whatnot. But you might still also say "these notes follow each other in a more or less arbitrary manner." And you can also say something like "[jazz is] our native art form." So I wonder how we'd argue for more qualitative languages, like intuition or experience, or a mixture.
You give me more credit than I deserve lol. I can't even follow what you are saying lol. But I'll try...intuition and experience....would be on the music sheet after all is said and done, if you are going to transcribe a piece of music, right? So it's all quantifiable, like everything. So that question is kind of answered I guess.
I'd really like to know what came first music or math. I'm going with music, but that's just a guess.