You said I was using tautologies as straw men, which is incoherent and suggests you’re not arguing in good faith.
Anyhow, of course entropy correlates to music quality; maximum entropy music is white noise! I’ve even had luck finding interesting jazz musicians from the distribution of key signatures they use—- anything more entropic than the Real Book is a great indicator. Similarly, network entropy makes it easier to identify musicians with a flexible arsenal of riffs. You could adapt it to chord progressions to find unusual reharmonizations in live jazz to study and practice. It could be a helpful regularizer for neural network music generation. Entropic methods are among the most powerful in statistics.
Anyhow, of course entropy correlates to music quality; maximum entropy music is white noise! I’ve even had luck finding interesting jazz musicians from the distribution of key signatures they use—- anything more entropic than the Real Book is a great indicator. Similarly, network entropy makes it easier to identify musicians with a flexible arsenal of riffs. You could adapt it to chord progressions to find unusual reharmonizations in live jazz to study and practice. It could be a helpful regularizer for neural network music generation. Entropic methods are among the most powerful in statistics.