ABSTRACT
What music is valuable for is not what is valuable in music. Musicians those who create or recreate the music judge music in some mysterious musical fashion independent of the uses that music may be put to. The anthropological house of glass that will be built later in this essay Functionalism without renouncing the tendency to flee from the aesthetic-core of the musical to its cultural causes. Much of the foofooraw in the current visual art scene has to do with the wavering boundary between use and aesthetic value the intensity of the collision is proof of the distinction. Art celebrates spontaneity in community, music might gain value from the contribution of the dimension of craftsmanship, but gain relatively little from the dimension of expression or vice versa or it might succeed or fail in both dimensions at once. Iannis Xenakis has referred to the profound necessity for music to be perpetually original philosophically, technically, aesthetically.
