I hear a good number of people in contemporary musical academic circles talk about how overly simplified western music is, given its 12 tones, mostly rigid adhe

I hear a good number of people in contemporary musical academic circles talk about how overly simplified western music is, given its 12 tones, mostly rigid adherence to predictable rhythmic structures, and reliance on transcription. But I think the opposite of them; the simplicity of the scales and the consistency of the notation is marvelous. We can convene directly with the long-dead people who were making this stuff up 400 years ago. It's the encoding of information into a more durable storage medium than peer-to-peer.