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RE: RE: What is Music?
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Originally posted by raceprouk
Music is the artform of combining numerous sounds of different pitches and other qualities to produce a pleasing form of entertainment, or to provoke emotion.

for me:
Music is a combination of things you can hear which the creator or beholder thinks of it as coherent.

* I didn't use the word "artform", as this is very subjective and music isn't nessecairly "art".
* I didn't use the word "sounds" as this might imply certain things related to music. "Music" can consist of anything you hear.
* I certainly didn't use the word "pitches" as this certainly can imply audio only. Pitch is also not nessecairly important in music.
* I didn't use the words "quality", "pleasing", "entertainment", "emotion", etc..  as these are again very subjective somethings.

Important for me is the word "coherent". Music is exactly that, otherwise you have simply "sound" or undefined stuff you hear. But notice I underlined "which the creator or beholder", because music can be anything to any person. It is the creator or beholder who calls it music, no-one else and you may/may not agree with it; it is the creator or beholder who thinks it is coherent or not...

quote:
Originally posted by jren207
Some kind of rhythm that makes you do stuff, makes you happy/sad/work harder/motivate you/ etc. A collection of sounds...
1) Music doesn't need to have a rythem to be called music.
2) The individual sounds in the collection needs to have "a relation", it needs to be "coherent" in the eye of the creator...

quote:
Originally posted by gif83
music is something that people choose to listen to for a non-practical purpose
People can be forced to listen. Music can be very practical.

quote:
Originally posted by Veggie
I would say that music is very tightly linked to mathematics, music is art, music is a way of expressing yourself.
music, as most of us know it, is indeed very related to maths, but this isn't nessecairly so...
Music can be very non-"arty" ("art" is an even more subjective word though). Music can have nothing to do with expressing, feelings, emotions and the likes...

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What is Music? - by user27089 on 06-21-2005 at 07:27 PM
RE: What is Music? - by Stigmata on 06-21-2005 at 07:31 PM
RE: What is Music? - by user27089 on 06-21-2005 at 07:36 PM
RE: What is Music? - by RaceProUK on 06-21-2005 at 07:53 PM
RE: RE: What is Music? - by CookieRevised on 06-21-2005 at 09:24 PM
RE: What is Music? - by Veggie on 06-21-2005 at 07:56 PM
RE: What is Music? - by gif83 on 06-21-2005 at 07:59 PM
RE: What is Music? - by jren207 on 06-21-2005 at 09:00 PM
RE: What is Music? - by gif83 on 06-21-2005 at 09:32 PM
RE: RE: What is Music? - by CookieRevised on 06-21-2005 at 09:42 PM
RE: What is Music? - by gif83 on 06-21-2005 at 09:54 PM
RE: What is Music? - by Tasha on 06-21-2005 at 10:31 PM
RE: What is Music? - by mwe99 on 06-21-2005 at 10:42 PM
RE: What is Music? - by dylan! on 06-21-2005 at 10:46 PM
RE: What is Music? - by mwe99 on 06-21-2005 at 10:47 PM
RE: What is Music? - by Jhrono on 06-21-2005 at 10:53 PM
RE: What is Music? - by toddiot on 06-21-2005 at 11:25 PM
RE: What is Music? - by CookieRevised on 06-21-2005 at 11:27 PM
RE: What is Music? - by multimillion2k on 06-21-2005 at 11:45 PM
RE: What is Music? - by aNILEator on 06-22-2005 at 06:20 AM
RE: What is Music? - by shine on 06-22-2005 at 06:26 AM
RE: What is Music? - by user27089 on 06-22-2005 at 07:08 AM
RE: What is Music? - by Purity on 06-22-2005 at 08:08 AM
RE: What is Music? - by gif83 on 06-22-2005 at 09:16 AM
RE: What is Music? - by -Bogan- on 06-22-2005 at 09:36 AM
RE: What is Music? - by King For A Day on 06-22-2005 at 09:57 AM
RE: What is Music? - by multimillion2k on 06-22-2005 at 12:07 PM
RE: What is Music? - by John Anderton on 06-22-2005 at 12:39 PM
RE: What is Music? - by Matti on 06-22-2005 at 12:46 PM
RE: What is Music? - by John Anderton on 06-22-2005 at 12:49 PM
RE: RE: What is Music? - by CookieRevised on 06-22-2005 at 02:50 PM
RE: What is Music? - by user27089 on 06-22-2005 at 03:10 PM
RE: What is Music? - by toddiot on 06-22-2005 at 09:37 PM
RE: What is Music? - by user27089 on 06-22-2005 at 10:07 PM
RE: What is Music? - by DJeX on 06-22-2005 at 10:16 PM
RE: What is Music? - by multimillion2k on 06-22-2005 at 10:49 PM
RE: What is Music? - by Purity on 06-23-2005 at 05:12 AM
RE: What is Music? - by user27089 on 06-23-2005 at 07:03 AM
RE: What is Music? - by gif83 on 06-23-2005 at 09:54 AM
RE: What is Music? - by saralk on 06-23-2005 at 01:40 PM
RE: What is Music? - by tomfletcherman on 06-23-2005 at 02:20 PM


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