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(Like Painting & Sculpture) 
Music aesthitics [[aesthetics]] is shot through with confusion and debate, except on one point! Almost everyone agrees that music in and of itself- absolute music, as it is sometimes called- is just an adquate [[adequate]], medium for the (precise) communication of thoughts or the delineation of objects- 
The design of music is mood and feeling, not external fact and logical discourse. Therein lies the big difference between music and all the other arts. In music the presentation of mood is direct.

"Form and content are one - music is an end in itself"