The aim of this chapter is to share the experience of listening to music and performing it as a form of discourse. While this may have been taken for granted in the eighteenth century, when it was a current metaphor, thinking of music in rhetorical terms is now a concept that requires a significant shift and therefore a challenge for both performers and theorists. Having explored the practical aspects of music as a performer, this author has spent several years focusing on the theoretical aspect of this approach.