why music

music is fundamentally
a philosophical venture

the one who plays the music
of others may not have this sense

for music to be viable
it must be performed in the
context of "saying" something
within the hearing of others

st columbe
perhaps the greatest
viola de gamba player
of all time
composed for his deceased wife
and played endlessly for her alone
for he believed she lived in heaven
and could hear him

he was a great metaphysician