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>>Surely the FRUITS of their labours might be beautiful, but how can
>>maths be abstact.

Did I say that? I didn't say that. Someone else did. 


>>sure music can be described in purely mathematical terms,
>
>No, it can't.  The essence of music is it's... "quality"... 

In can be described in simple numeric terms - pitch, duration, tempo, 
volume. That is what the other writer was implying, but I didn't say this 
is all there is to it. In fact, I don't consider that really math so much 
as numerical qualities. "mathematics" implies some sort of system. 
Harmony is more mathematical.