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From a Platonic perspective, the question is not whether music itself has advanced, but whether our understanding of it has. Do we make progress in our understanding of musical works, as we have made progress in our understanding of the Milky Way? Have we learned from our past?
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In music - probably no...
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This is a profoundly pessimistic assessment. If we cannot learn from our past -- if not even the most sedulous and prolonged study of our predecessors' achievements can enable us to see farther than they -- then we are in the nightmarish position of Sisyphus. Why go on at all?
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