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bogus comments on The mystery of Brahms - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: PhilGoetz 21 October 2015 05:12AM

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Comment author: bogus 22 October 2015 06:00:27PM 0 points [-]

I just don't think that it proves much, beyond what I wrote above. Given how consonance and dissonance work, it's somewhat to be expected that playing many variations at once on the same ground can result in (consonant) music.