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>>18193167
I'm fairly confident that the music of the future will be a revival of classical. This was one of my takeaways from Spengler even though he did not say it. According to Spengler Western art music is equivalent to Greek sculpture in its importance as a cultural form. The Romans famously did not produce any original works of sculpture, preferring to copy everything from the Greeks.

Once the 400 year common practice period of classical ended, music turned into fleeting styles and fashions that changed every decade. To me this represents nothing but uncertainty, music being unsure of what to do with itself. Now even this period has ended, for reasons you say in your second post, so the inability to innovate must necessarily lead to a revival of old music.

But, as you also mention, the music of parents and grandparents is "uncool". So where do you go from there? Modern trends have left no way forward. So it is necessary to go back further. You revive the main musical tradition that Western civilization has historically known. But now innovation is a thing of the past, so it's going to look very Roman in its formulation. I think this is a pretty good estimation of the future of Western music.