People Like to Think About Music; but Few People Think About Thinking-About-Music
Of course there is a great deal of thinking about music, consider: Musicology, music theory, music criticism, informal music blogs, and so on. But there are certain “meta-music” topics that get amazingly little attention; one could put these under the heading of “thinking about thinking-about-music”.
Examples of topics that fall under the heading of “thinking about thinking-about-music”:
[a] What is the scope and what are the limitations of the Note-centric model of music?
[b] What is the scope and what are the limitations of the OMS model of music?
[c] What kinds of comprehensive models of music might there be besides [a] and [b]?
[d] How can music be described while respecting the subjectivity of individual experiences of music?
[e] Are reasonable rating systems possible for music? (If rating systems are possible for wine, why not for music?)
These are very interesting topics. But in researching and developing OMS, we have learned that few people are actively interested in such topics. Interest seems to be restricted mainly to “specialists” such as myself.