I've seen this discussed in different threads before, but I've never actually seen a thread on this topic. I'm in a music theory class, and I have an assignment to get as many different definitions of music as I can. I don't mean to start a flame war with this, I'm just wondering about your opinion on what music is. Thanks!
Music: It's not as clumsy and random as a blaster, an elegant weapon for a more, civilized age. ancient religions and hokey weapons are no match for some good music at your side.
music is everything around us. the clouds, the sun and the fire. music is the emotional rollercoster that some face. music is the shallow water that we all grace.... what's wrong with me!?! i'll shut up now.. i really don't have an answer...sorry
The science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity is a shape or form. here are some websites that I scrounged up on the subject Music Definition/History forum question about "Definition of Music" .PFD file must have acrobat reader Forum questions thouse should give you many differnt opinions of what the definition of music is. I hope I helped peace -Ben
Thats true as well, anything can be made into music, geometrical shapes can be formatted into diatonic ratios. I have been reading up on the math behind it and its actually very interesting how shapes can be made into diatonic ratios (crop circle music). Anywho, don't want to hi-jack the thread, if anyone is interested in that PM me.
Well if it helps to illuminate the boundary, according to a roommate of mine back in college, Zappa's Ship Arriving Too Late To Save a Drowning Witch is not music. I tended to disagree with that position, however.
Of or inspired by the (or a) muse. Time + Tone + Human(s) = Music One tricky thing I've been working with is that music should not be a noun, because it's not a thing. Music is always played/experienced in/over/through time, so it should be a verb, like musicing.
Anything that can strike an emotion, or feeling within. Doesn't matter what genere, or musical technicality, it just has to hit the right sounds to move the emotion.
I always liked John Cage's definition: "Music is organized sound and silence." Short, sweet, to the point, and it covers all the bases.
Life But all the above definitions are good. Music and Art are very relivant...it all deals with expression,IMO.
That's beautiful. I personally think "emotion" should be mentioned explicitly, but perhaps that's unnecessary for some listeners.
An assortment of sounds/noises consciously created (by human beings) with the aim of eliciting (and/or expressing) emotion
Fuzzbass, The beauty of Cage's definition is that it is an objective statement. If you add emotion to the mix, then it starts to become subjective due to the varying amounts of feeling associated with different music. I do agree with you however in that I think that emotion and music are related. In fact, a study done within the last 6 months pointed to music making portions of the brain more active in the listener. And those portions were also the areas that are known to control emotion. Or, to quote a long dead poet/composer: "He who does not write from the heart, falsifies his music and his art."
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