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>try thinking about this...math is an ideal model.  It can only
>represent music to some degree of accuracy.  So, much of music
>can be described with math, but there is more to it. :)
>

Totally... I think the more interesting question is how all that math or
fequency addition and subtraction pulls at our emotions in a certain way.
Like why does a minor scale sound spookier than a major scale?  And why does
blues music use so many diminished chords?  The pure math aspect is just an
outward appearance from a very left-brained lop sidedness.  From a whole
brain perspective, math will never be the "end all, be all" tool for
creating music, it just really helps you to structure everything.  Most of
it really begins and ends in the heart, the mysterious seat of all our power
as humans.  Thats why I tend to like eastern classical music more than
western classical music, because I think at some point the math aspect sort
of outstripped the emotional and spiritual element among the rennaisance
composers.  Western classical music is very beautiful and massive like a
statue, but it is just so much colder and more stiff than a Hindu Raga or
some Noh play from Japan.  And especially the vocal stuff like opera - for
me italian opera has nothing on sufi Qawwali music, or Tuvan throat singing.
But this is just my opinion.