What is Music to You?
Posted by Streaming Music | Posted in Live Music | Posted on 17-03-2009
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Music generally refers to pleasing sound perceived by humans. The same sound can be annoying to another individual, he will call it disturb ance.
So, music is a matter of individual choice. Human psychology is divergent for e truly individual. His or her interest in music will be divergent from others altogether.
Music is an art form in which the medium is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture.
The word derives from Greek (mousike), “(art) of the Muses”.
To a lot of, music is a way of life, such as it’s to the Native Americans, who use their music to pray.
a lot of still use this practice today, who have found their hearts in the melodies. Greek philosophers and ancient Indians defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies.
Common sayings such as “the harmony of the spheres” and ” it’s music to my ears” point to the notion that music is generally ordered and pleasant to listen to, but the opinion of the listener does not necessarily help music theorists formulate a precise definition of music.
like the notion that visual arts must be beautiful to behold, the tacit notion that music need be pleasant to listen to has been questioned.
20th-century composer John Cage has been explicit that any sound can be music, saying, for example, ” There’s no noise, only sound.” According to musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez, “the border betwixt music and noise is always culturally defined-which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.

