문제 9Those decisions, small as they sound, were entirely her own to make.
My cousin, who has never taken a single music lesson, recently used a composing app on her phone to write a short song for her friend's birthday video. ( ① ) Watching her work, I realized the app handled much of the technical difficulty that used to stop beginners from composing at all, automatically keeping her melody in key and suggesting chords that matched the mood she selected. ( ② ) What the app could not do, however, was decide which four notes actually felt right for the opening line, or when a pause said more than another note would have. ( ③ ) She spent nearly an hour adjusting a single short phrase until it matched the feeling she wanted to capture, deleting and replaying it dozens of times. ( ④ ) Watching her patient trial and error, I understood that these tools lower the technical barrier to making music, but they do not remove the very human task of deciding what a piece of music is actually trying to say. ( ⑤ )