could appreciate the beauty of a Bach work simply by examining the visual pattern it generated on the disc...
Oh, I don't THINK so! SOME beauty, maybe, but not THE beauty.


Why not? Beauty is subjective, isn't it? I mean, maybe that's all the totortoise would find beautiful about Bach's music. Stranger things have happened, Jackie. You may find this hard, perhaps even nearly impossible, to believe, but apparently there are native speakers of English who don't like Shakespeare's work - is that any easier to accept than an aesthete tortoise?