"(...) The Mozart Effect has been debunked; listening to Mozart does not, in fact, make kids smarter. But the idea that classical music is good, and good for you, remains. Indeed, the fable we’ve built up for ourselves about classical music’s goodness may hinder the dissemination of certain kinds of contemporary classical music. If classical music, with its rules of tonality and harmony and its set, classical forms of concerto, symphony and quartet, is perceived, even unconsciously, as a moral entity, people may react negatively when music posing under the classical mantle doesn’t express the kind of 'good' they expect from it. And from here, it is but a short step to the idea that classical music is morally superior — that it makes you not only better, but better than others (...)". (aqui; ler George Steiner aqui e aqui)