Mozart (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Sonata K300)  When I first heard
of Mozart's formula, I felt a great excitement, because I
thought that it might shed light on music theory and on music
itself. You may at first be disappointed, as I was, when you
find out that Mozart's formula, as we know it today, appears to
be strictly structural. Structural analyses have so far not yet
provided much information on how you come up with famous
melodies; but then, music theory doesn't either. Today's music
theory only helps to compose "correct" music or expand on it
once you have come up with a musical idea. Music theory is a
classification of families of notes and their arrangements in
certain patterns. We can not yet rule out the possibility that
music is ultimately based on certain identifiable types of
structural patterns. I first learned of Mozart's formula at a
lecture given by a music professor. I have since lost the
reference -- if anyone reading this book knows of a reference
(professor’s name, his institution), pleas