Jon Gallant:

>I think we will find ourselves on firmer ground if we take music as A
>BRANCH of mathematics: abstracted from the symbolic system of quantity
>relationships which, we find, has deep roots in the real world.

Yes, but then, everything becomes a branch of mathematics and such a
statement loses its meaning.  Acoustics may be mathematics; music is not
in any meaningful sense, or if it is, no one has discovered a mathematical
way to describe a piece of music that means anything more or leads to
anything more than a simple verbal description.

Or maybe someone has, and I've missed it.

Steve Schwartz