Music, Contemplation, Will

The perhaps epochal significance of Schopenhauer's theory of Music is that it posits Will as the essence of it, with respect to which, in the millennia-old Pythagorean mathematical concept, Music is "considered merely externally" (#52 of World as Will and Representation).  However, he does not concomitantly propose an analogously exclusive access to Music, unlike e. g. Bergson's 'Intuition', so, in his system, the preeminent experience of Music remains the same Contemplation that is that of Numbers and other traditional Platonic Ideas.  Thus, the ultimate value, for him, of Music, lies in the contemplation of it, insofar as the latter affords detachment from it, and, thus, from Will.  In that respect, the Contemplation of Music is less effective than the Contemplation of Will itself, and, is, therefore, of value only as preparation for the latter.