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Composers like Bach and Handel used mathematical patterns in their music. Proof equations can groove.

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Baroque music frequently uses symmetry, repetition, and structured transformations (inversion, retrograde-like ideas, sequences). In a fugue, for example, a single theme is systematically reworked across voices with rule-like precision.

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