"To be Perfected in Music" and Confucius's Ideal of Life

Is it appropriate say that the phrase to be perfected in in Chapter VIII of the Analects refers to, as it used be interpreted, the harmonious combination of the moral learning and musical accomplishment in a man of noble character? By studying the Rites of Zhou, On Music from the Book of Rites and other ancient Chinese classics, the author believes that in the ancient times means a form of performance in a ritual ceremony, the scene of which is therefore described as magnificence of rites and music. The orderliness achieved in the performance, which Confucius refers as proper conduct of rites and music, is indispensable from the systematic conduct or manoeuvre by a music master. To become a music master, the anchorman of the ritual ceremony, is Confucius the highest goal of life. To understand the phrase to be perfected in in this way will perhaps help us understand more of Confucius as a human.