 Al-Fārābī never considers music on its own as a syllogistic art. There is an obvious reason for this, namely that music is not built of words, and syllogisms (by Aristotle’s definition which al-Fārābī cites at [Syllogism] 19.8) are a form of verbal discourse (qawl). But this requires only that the premises are verbal; the conclusion, on both Aristotle’s definition and al-Fārābī’s own quoted in  Section 7  above, is simply a “thing”. Already in Aristotle the conclusion of a practical syllogism is an action, not a proposition. (Thus Aristotle, De Motu Animalium 7, 701a11: “The two propositions result in a conclusion which is an action”.)