Edward Moore writes:

>...musical souls cannot come to know the origin of music except in a
>creative capacity -- and such a capacity is already musically involved,
>if you will.  And so aleatory music presents itself as somewhat tragic,
>just like Heidegger's neo-Grecian philosophy...

The conundrum of classical philosophy was whether being was fundamentally
a function of existence, or of essence.  Heidegger's best known work, Sein
und Zeit, opted strongly for existence and thereby notably helped launch
modern existentialism.  But the work remained unfinished, apparently
because Heidegger had a change of mind and became much, much less sure of
the primacy of existence and more and more tempted by essence.  And, by
golly, aleatory musicm, upon the prompting of Edward Moore, does sound to
me Heideggerian--muddled, that is.

Denis Fodor