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Classical music just got simpler

Classical music just got simpler

A study by researchers at the Sapienza University of Rome has detected ‘a trend of simplification across all music genres’.

‘Our analysis indicates that even enduring genres like classical and jazz have undergone a noticeable simplification compared to their origins,’ they report.

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