 Music’s rise to prominence among the arts is signaled by the increasing number of major philosophers who find space for it in their systems. These include Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775–1854) and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831). The greatest contribution of idealist philosophy to the aesthetics of music is perhaps the idea that music’s temporal nature is crucial to its peculiar status among the arts (see Johnson 1991: 159).