RE: composing

I prefer to use very few chords in my compositions. Whether this
has anything to do with my predilection for Just Intonation is
unclear. In most things, I am a minimalist.

I have software that analyzes type 0 MIDI files for the number of
chords they contain, and it appears that most composers use many
more chords than I. I haven't done a systematic survey, and I
have no great knowledge of classical music, but what exploration
I have done indicates that Bach is the King of Complexity in this
area with many of his compositions having more than a hundred
chords.

Mozart seems to have the greatest tendency toward simplicity in
this area with Beethoven being somewhere in the middle.

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