That explains my early fascination with archaeology (or is this the "chicken and the egg" conundrum?).

I'm with CapK. Similarly, even if a specific music theory is used as a composition tool, it is 'often' quite meaningless to the overall aural perception of most listeners. Given the possible combinations of 88 notes that "westerners" have been stuck on (ducking for cover emoticon), this 'failure' of music theory to provide 'science' is the same 'failure' across the arts.

However, I still enjoy both...