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The answer is resoundingly no.

Not only is it a resounding no, there is ongoing research to find the roots of this cliche.

I can't seem to find the article, but it traces it back to this chemical engineer who did a statistical analysis of the bass lines and cadencial formulae in Bach's chorales.

I've even seen some scans of his analyses, it's wild stuff. Maybe it's on libgen? I can't remember but you can probably do a search for it...

Edit: added a link to the article

Edit2: nope, never mind, that wasn't it. But if I find it I'll add the URL later...

Allen McHose perhaps? :)

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