A. Vainshtein Lost Paradise or “Squaring the Circle” (Essay about Music).

Abstract: The main point is that the nature of the music in which, for the first time in history, melody has become the “medium of expression”, is still rather mysterious. The main question remains unanswered: what makes the melody so powerful and understandable for us? Would it be possible to find the irresistible proof a simple shepherd’s song being more preferable than an opus composed by the random quantity generator or in any other “technical” way?