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Repetition Makes Music Beautiful [video]

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Re: Repetition Makes Music Beautiful [video]

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He changed the chords that the audience selected and reordered them, first off. Furthermore, the demonstration does not prove or even suggest the thesis that "repetition is what makes music beautiful", the end result being of questionable beauty, the element of repetition being unclear (is he referring to the looping, or the priming effect on the audience having heard it already, or something else?), and the relevance of the demo excerpt to the beauty or repetitiveness other music is left completely unaddressed.

Re: Repetition Makes Music Beautiful [video]

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Key takeaway from the video "repetition legitimizes".

i remember when i first heard that watching an Adam Neely video and it really struck me just how powerful and salient a claim it is. everything that we have come to expect of all aspects of existence is only that way because it has been repeated enough to have been made a fact of reality, and then progressively iterated upon over time with each iteration repeated until accepted. so it makes perfect sense within the context of music imo and is quite a useful tool to have in one's belt
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