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Syncopations are more prominent now , and the price paid for this added musical sophistication seems to be a " Sorcerer 's Apprentice " - like inability for the music to keep its mechanism in order ; there are fits , starts , halts , and slapstick chases . Today the landscape is so splintered , it 's hard to seek out and find stuff that actually challenges your intellect and your musical sophistication . The seven shape note tradition in contrast became a dynamic vehicle for gospel songwriters in the late nineteenth century and attracted a growing body of new compositions that demonstrated greater musical sophistication than their fasola cousins . A McGill researcher has discovered that infants actually have more musical sophistication than previously suspected . So , in a way , these worthies showed their musical sophistication .