Reading recently in John 2, a directly stated distinction between two wines caught my attention. Pondering that passage led me to consider whether something similar is also true about instrumental musics.
Some Wine That Was Better Than Other Wine
It was apparently commonly agreed among the Jews that some wine was better than other wine:
John 2:10 And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
Since Jesus was the One who created the wine in this account, we can be certain that it was wine that was objectively better than other wine that the ruler of the feast had previously tasted.
Are There Similar Differences among Instrumental Musics?
We have seen that there was some wine that truly was better than other wine. Does something similar also apply to kinds/styles/genres of instrumental music, or are there no kinds/styles/genres of instrumental music that we can objectively say are better than others?
If there are not any instrumental musics that are better than others, why are instrumental musics different than wines? How do we know that instrumental musics are different than wines in that respect?
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