Mats Norrman: >I wonder; if it now is so that the female brain (in most cases) is >not successful in composing music; I assume that the HUMAN brain (in most cases) is not successful (in any sense) in composing music. However, some human brains, male and female, are successful in doing this. Mats' hypothesis calls for an interpretation of "successful." If it is a matter of actually producing works that anyone who knows anything about music will agree are, in fact, music, it is clearly true that some (in fact many) female brains have functioned successfully this way. But if by "successful," what is really meant is "successful with audiences, critics, musicologists, performers, conservatory faculty, etc." then the category has shifted from the neurological to the social. That is a very different matter, and requires examination of entirely different kinds of data--and also requires different kinds of judgments. Jim Tobin