Yeah really.
The Ainur did there singing "beyond the confines of the World." Then when they "entered into [the material universe]... naught was yet made."
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For the Great Music had been but the growth and flowering of thought in the Timeless Halls, and the Vision only a foreshadowing; but now they had entered in at the begining of time, and the Valar perceived that the World had been but foreshadowed and foresung, and they must achieve it.
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To distil that, the Music was before the Universe existed.