It's qualitatively different. The nature of math work is analytic, that of music is more expansive. Someone can appreciate the beauty of Bach intuitively, witho

It's qualitatively different. The nature of math work is analytic, that of music is more expansive. Someone can appreciate the beauty of Bach intuitively, without consciously breaking it down or even being aware of a construction, depedends on their intuitive senses. In math the information is encoded and mostly can't even start to be processed by the layman.