But Christian Siddell, another musicologist, reported that he found melodic similarities were “ so numerous and striking that the possibility of independent creation is… highly improbable ”.... They also agreed that neither of them had found “ the same combination of either the ‘Oh Why’ phrase – combined phonetic sound plus pitch and rhythm – nor the ‘Oh I’ phrase – combined phonetic sound plus pitch and rhythm – in any other compositions ”.... He wrote that “ the overall design and musical de