OK, I forgot some steps!
I've been thinking deeply about time, and I now believe that were it not for time, everyone would be flatulent simultaneously, and the world would end.
There's lots of steps in music, but the whole structure is the result of the Catholic Church. First it was the greatest impediment to musical advancement and then it was an incubator for such awe inspiring creations such as Hidegard von Bingen and later it led to Bach and so on. Eventually music escaped the bonds of the church and became more "proletarian". It's hard for me to figure which piece of this progression made music I like the best, but it's sometime long before now.