Originally posted by Serial_Apologist
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Agreed. I sometimes just switch on and try to guess the composer of a piece I am hearing for the first time. Generally I am accurate with the better-known composers, but every so often I get the wrong one, and, having decided that I like the piece, then discover it to be by a composer for whom I have previously declared my strong dislike! 
While its true to say that , for instance in music , the idea of the key of G major seems to be far more "fixed " than the meaning of a word might in literature, i suspect that these ideas are fixed only in as far as we personally allow them to be fixed, or accept them as fixed.
It would be interesting to read more on this kind of area. Suffice to say , for now, that thinking hard about our role as listener might be as productive as, for example, listening to pieces of music that are new to us.
Sadly, I am stabbing with a blunt stick in the dark here, but perhaps wiser or better educated heads can help with some direction !
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