What an incredibly elitist and dismissive view of music. You are aware that there are entire musical traditions that do not employ notation, right?<p>You&#x27;re excluding tons of music outside of 12 tone temperament, not to mention plenty of electronic, jazz, and experimental music.<p>And you&#x27;re idea of Mandarin being more complex than English, French, German, etc... I would challenge you to find a single linguist who agrees with that. I for one do not.