Music is the art of arranging sounds in time to produce a composition through the elements of melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. It is one of the universal cultural aspects of all human societies. General definitions of music include common elements such as pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics (loudness and softness), and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture (which are sometimes termed the "color" of a musical sound). Different styles or types of music may emphasize, de-emphasize or omit some of these elements. Music is performed with a vast range of instruments and vocal techniques ranging from singing to rapping; there are solely instrumental pieces, solely vocal pieces (such as songs without instrumental accompaniment) and pieces that combine singing and instruments. The word derives from Greek μουσική (mousike; "(art) of the Muses"); see § Etymology and glossary of musical terminology.
In its most general form, the activities describing music as an art form or cultural activity include the creation of works of music (songs, tunes, symphonies, and so on), the criticism of music, the study of the history of music, and the aesthetic examination of music. Ancient Greek and Indian philosophers defined music in two parts: melodies, as tones ordered horizontally, and harmonies as tones ordered vertically. Common sayings such as "the harmony of the spheres" and "it is music to my ears" point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to. However, 20th-century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music, saying, for example, "There is no noise, only sound."The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. Indeed, throughout history, some new forms or styles of music have been criticized as "not being music", including Beethoven's Grosse Fuge string quartet in 1825, early jazz in the beginning of the 1900s and hardcore punk in the 1980s. There are many types of music, including popular music, traditional music, art music, music written for religious ceremonies, and work songs such as chanteys. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions—such as Classical music symphonies from the 1700s and 1800s—through to spontaneously played improvisational music such as jazz, and avant-garde styles of chance-based contemporary music from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Music can be divided into genres (e.g., country music) and genres can be further divided into subgenres (e.g., alternative country and country pop are two of the many country subgenres), although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to personal interpretation, and occasionally controversial. For example, it can be hard to draw the line between some early 1980s hard rock and heavy metal. Within the arts, music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art or as an auditory art. Music may be played or sung and heard live at a rock concert or orchestra performance, heard live as part of a dramatic work (a music theater show or opera), or it may be recorded and listened to on a radio, MP3 player, CD player, smartphone or as film score or TV show.
In many cultures, music is an important part of people's way of life, as it plays a key role in religious rituals, rite of passage ceremonies (e.g., graduation and marriage), social activities (e.g., dancing) and cultural activities ranging from amateur karaoke singing to playing in an amateur funk band or singing in a community choir. People may make music as a hobby, like a teen playing cello in a youth orchestra, or work as a professional musician or singer. The music industry includes the individuals who create new songs and musical pieces (such as songwriters and composers), individuals who perform music (which include orchestra, jazz band and rock band musicians, singers and conductors), individuals who record music (music producers and sound engineers), individuals who organize concert tours, and individuals who sell recordings, sheet music, and scores to customers. Even once a song or piece has been performed, music critics, music journalists, and music scholars may assess and evaluate the piece and its performance.
Is their a legitimate music p2p service that charges its customers a monthly fee for downloading unlimited songs instead of paying 99 cents for one song? Because I listen to a lot of music and 99 cents a song is just to expensive for a college student like me. I ask if there are legitimate p2p...
This may be more appropriate for the metaphysics forum, but since this is my first post, I'll give this area a shot.
What is the relationship between music, mathematics and descriptive language?
By descriptive language, I mean any language that describes the world as it really is...
I keep seeing all of these cell phone ads that only talk about playing music, as if that is the only reason to buy one. I thought you were supposed to talk on them.
What do you buy a cell phone for?
Was given an assignment to create an AI that can control the music's volume by using fuzzy membership function (slightly soft, soft, loud, very loud) via voice control but the problem is we need to implement hardware into the project because my course is Electronic Engineering.
So far, I've...
so...
i'm working at a summer co-op position at a software company until August
I basically work on the computer all day, so I was thinking that it'd make my workdays a lot more bearable if I could listen to music while working, you know? :confused:
would it be OK if i just started to...
Homework Statement
a stringed musical intstrument from a remote tribe in Africa sets up a standing wave along the .75 m length of the string. This length corresponds to the distance between the first node and the seocnd node. The string has a mass of 11.5 grams. The strings vibrates 300 times...
First of all I am not really that far into my physics knowledge (I'm still in high school). I have a projct to design an instrument and explain how is sound produced by my instrument. I was planning to make an electric instrument such as a synthesizer using my computer engineering course...
For some reason, I am getting into some of the 80s music.
Give me some good stuff to listen to.
So far I've got:
AC/DC - Hells Bells <- such a good song.
You Spin me right round - dead or alive.
Glenn Frey "The Heat Is On"
I just listen to them on Youtube and buy the ones I...
I am not sure where this is exactly suppose to go but I need some help with the mathematics behind musical theory. I searched the forums and didnt really find a related topic. The instraments I play are guitar and piano. I recently started the piano though and it made me question many things...
I am in Gr.11 chemistry, and I am suppose to study and do a report and presentation on anything related to chemistry. My teacher suggested that I do something that I am interested in and then relate it to chemistry. So one thing that I love is music, and I am kind of stuck in terms of how i can...
I use to like you tube.
It's free, it's full of... well you can find a lot of cultural content on it.
Anyway, I am not sure this is a "classic".
Keith Jarrett - Improvisation on Rhodes (1971)
But now I have doubts about Keith Jarret ! Well, that was back in the 70's right :uhh:
Could you manage to restrict your music to 10 albums/CDs and be anywhere comfortable with the choice if you were stranded on the proverbial desert island? For the record, I would probably be busy making a guitar out of locally available materials so I could cop Elmore James songs... Here's...
i like to listen to music a bit and one of the things that everyone who listens long enough notice is a circle that never ends, same thing with lots of things. now I've heard that the circumference of circle is an infinite number and that's what people seem to concentrate on if pie ends knowing...
"physics and math music"
I wasn't sure where to post this but here's the question.
I have to take a 2 hour bus ride about once a week at night. since i can't really read then i thought that it'd be cool if i could get some lectures or something in a mp3, wma, wav... format.
Does anyone...
Hi. I would really appreciate it if someone could tell me whether I'm correct or not. :smile:
1. An open pipe (open at both ends) and a closed pipe (closed at one end) are the same length. If an organ blows air across the top of each pipe, what is true of the frequency (and pitch) of the...
Tom Lehrer!
I just found a few neat clips on youtube:
The LY song:
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"New Math":
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"Silent E":
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And, finally, a 2-part live performance by himself:
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Enjoy!:smile:
I have wanted to do this for a while but cringe when I see the cost of the commercial systems. I want to be able to make lights flash in sync with mp3s on a computer but do not want to spend a lot of money. I know there are visualizations incorporated into Winamp, Windows Media Player, etc...
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I have always had what appears to be a rather limiting perception of music - specifically vocals.
I am unable or unwilling to understand word in the music I listen to. People always say, "I really like these words" or "this song has so much meaning" and I'm like all "What?"
When I...
I may discuss a lot of philosophy, but my true passion is music.
So, I figured I wanted to share it with you guys..
I have two songs that I've recently made, which are made on the computer, but with orchestral sounds..
So here they are, hope someone likes them...
Get out of my thread yomamma
I've started to notice that people are absolutely psychotic about music. It's as if its oxygen to them. If someone doesn't listen to music for a few hours, they will become murderous. I would say a good 90% of my friends say music is the most important thing in...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8610362188397291938" was so painful, I had to share it with you all.. Just to ... Well share in the pain? :rofl:
Which if any of these would you buy,
http://classicalmusic.about.com/od/cdreviews/tp/topalbums2005.htm
and what dvd player would you buy to play it on? i have never owned one so
i do not have a clue what to look for.
Hi everyone.
I'm seeking advice from you lovely people because you seem pretty clever and switched on. Any advice you can offer me is greatly appreciated :). Basicly the synopsis of my problem is that I am experiencing a conflict between my passions for music and my Physics studies at...
Music lovers have to love this deal, all CDs $5.99 with free shipping, no tax.
http://www.yourmusic.com/enroll/enroll_200507.html
After all that choice I can't understand why all I want to listen to is Liz Wright singing Stop, I'm Confessin', and anything else she decides to grace with her...
I'm wondering what happened to the minimalist music of several years ago. It allowed one to concentrate and actually enjoy the changes. The changes caused me react differently than to what may be considered standard musical format. Much different than say to Mozart conpositions, or to Queen's...
This is pretty funny...
http://stringschool.blogspot.com/2006/04/string-theory-hits-music-scene.html
Never tought I'd hear the words supersymmetry, brane or the concept of 11 dimensions in a song :rofl:
anyone know of any kind of music software where it'll let me like write my own music? something that will give me lines that i can put notes in or something like that? it can't be expensive either.
Hey guys, I have 2 questions:
1. If you press the loudness pedal on a piano and sing a note, a sound usually comes from the piano, why?
2.With a trombone, a skilled player will produce an attractive sound, whereas an unskilled player will produce an unattractive sound while playing the same...
This came out last week, but I just realized that I didn't advertize it on here.
This is a kick-ass website hosted by Rutgers University. It has
interviews and oral essays by some of the biggest names in physics.
Of course, I'm partially biased to it because for once, there's a...
Back when Thriller first came out I loved it. I thought the "Billie Jean" dance was terrific, and I must have watched the zombie video 30 times.
In light of his later weirdness, I am careful not to mention this album as having been among my favorites. In fact, I will deny having just wrote...
Hi,
Does anyone have any exceptional music to recommend that they believe enhances their ability to concentrate or visualize highly abstract and/or complex math/physics problems? It's fun experimenting with stuff like this so if you have any recommendations let me know. [I do a lot of math &...
I know it's quite embarrassing when I ask this, but how can one distinguish different types of music. I can clearly tell which one is a pop song. It's easy since pop song is just about love.
I know Rock, and Heavy Rock (is it also called Heavy Metal?), but I don't know what's the difference. Is...
How large is your computer music library in terms of songs and the space they take up? I have just under 1600 songs and it takes up about 8.1 gigs, but I know people who have much more than that...a girl I went out with for awhile last year had over 5000 songs on her computer.
I often wonder what music will be like in a century or two. In fact I wonder if humans will have anything to do with music, beyond listening. Will we eventually write a program that is the perfect composer? Will all acoustic instruments be abandoned and replaced with electronic ones, or will we...
Ok, I don't know if anyone else here likes this sort of thing.
I'm getting into Middle Eastern and Latino pop/flamenco music because both genres have a beat. (I don't know Arabic, Turkish, Farsi, or Spanish...but the singers just seem more passionate about what they are singing) Anyone here...
i fond this site: www.pandora.com
you select some artists\songs you like and it tries to identify your taste and play songs you'll like.
i made a station, you can add it by clicking on share and insert the address westerndrag@hotmail.com
my taste is much broader then what this site made...
http://www.youtube.com/w/Fearless-MV?v=fp2atxNeVDU&search=jet%20li
This is a nice video for jet li fans... but its also, for me, says something about American music lately. For most of the music video... if i didn't see the chinese (or whatever) captions at the bottom, i really wouldn't have...
Can computer music "speak" to us?
Via the commenter whose handle is Fly, over at the gene expression site www.gnxp.com, I found this moving testimony by Douglas Hofstadter, on the effects of one piece of AI programming.
http://www.unc.edu/~mumukshu/gandhi/gandhi/hofstadter.htm
He finds...
Ok let's start a nice little conversation for amateur or professional producers out there. I'm interesting in Alesis XGuitar - anyone have any experience with it? Particularly I'd like to know the FX editing capability - what exactly can you downlink to it and how do you edit any effects...
could you please paraphrase these sentences for me? i have an en exam tomorrow but i know nothing!:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: i really appreciate your help!:redface:
"the study of music teaches people to appreciate quality- those products of human creativity that represent the highest order of...
OK, find another house that could top this one in terms of christmas decoration creativity. :)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8290192083117426204
Zz.
Can any Firefox users here the music on this page (It's not an English page, though)? (You just have to open the page, and don't have to click on anything).
Uhmm, so far I've tested this in Opera, and Internet Explorer, and both work fine... But somehow it does not seem to work in Firefox. I...