Nested Types and Musical Flexibility.

An essay is presented which responds to Nemesio García-Carril Puy's article "Musical Works, Types and Modal Flexibility Reconsidered," published in a 2022 issue of "The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism." Topics discussed include the arguments raised by Puy regarding the extrinsic properties of musical compositions and the advantages of the type-token model of musical works, the modal flexibility being demonstrated by some compositions, and the identification of musical works by higher order types based on the nested types theory.