Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"

[Neo-Scholastic]

I don't need a scholarly essay, just an executive summary of your version of materialism. How you would deal with the ontological status of a song might guide me to better understand the context for your statements. You are under no obligation to explain yourself unless of course it is your intention to communicate your ideas as clearly as possible.

This would be so much clearer, if you would just state whatever it is about you're hoping music can segue into.    Asking me what music is made out of, from a materialists pov, is as inexplicable as asking me what a wooden chair is made out of.  Music is made out of sound...a wooden chair is made out of wood.  You don't care, though....you already know that, that;s not what you're fishing for, and neither of us is foolish enough to keep pretending otherwise, right?

The first question that comes to my mind is whether the Sid Vicious version of “My Way” is the same song as the one sung by Frank Sinatra. There is also a question about whether a piece of sheet music or a 45 rpm vinyl recording qualify as songs and in what way. I don’t think anyone truly believes that a quantitative analysis of physical vibrations gets very far on those types of questions. The fact is that when people talk about a song, what is it “made of” or how it is transmitted are never discussed. People talk about its structure, sense and affect. Anyone coming into the conversation and insisting that what makes a song a song is just vibrations in matter would be rightly considered a fool.