Music, Composition, Dancing

In #52 of World as Will and Representation, Schopenhauer characterizes Music as "independent of the phenomenal world", as possibly existing "even if there were no world at all", as the innermost soul of the phenomenon without the body", and as perceived "with absolute exclusion of space".  Thus, his likening of a composer to a "somnambulist" undermines that concept of Music, because being a 'somnambulist' entails having a body, that exists in the phenomenal world, and that moves through space.  Accordingly, a composer is, rather, a special case of a dancer, who expresses Music as essentially phenomenal, spatial, and embodied.  Likewise, the function of Contemplation in the process of composition is not to catch a glimpse of some noumenal language, but to project an imaging of possible motion.  In other words, to compose is to actively structure, not to passively describe.