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Music
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music
n.
composed rhythmical sound; playing of musical instruments, singing; musical notes in written form
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Music
Music is an art form consisting of sound and silence expressed through time. Elements of sound as used in music are pitch (including melody and harmony), rhythm (including tempo and meter), structure, and sonic qualities of timbre, articulation, dynamics, and texture.
The creation, performance, significance and even the definition of music, vary according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions and performances to improvisational or aleatoric forms. For purposes of discussion and exploration of the topic, music is divided into genres and sub-genres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often unclear and/or controversial. Within "the arts", music can be classified as a performing art, a fine art, or an auditory art form.
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music
Noun
1. an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
(hypernym) auditory communication
(hyponym) section, subdivision
(class) attuned, tuned
2. any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds; "he fell asleep to the music of the wind chimes"
(synonym) euphony
(hypernym) sound, auditory sensation
(hyponym) music of the spheres
(class) reharmonize, reharmonise
3. musical activity (singing or whistling etc.); "his music was his central interest"
(hypernym) activity
(hyponym) bell ringing, carillon, carillon playing
(part-meronym) beats per minute, bpm, metronome marking, M.M.
(class) sound off, strike up
4. (music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds)
(hypernym) sound, auditory sensation
(hyponym) piano music
(class) syncopate
5. punishment for one's actions; "you have to face the music"; "take your medicine"
(synonym) medicine
(hypernym) punishment, penalty, penalization, penalisation
(class) vet
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Music
(n.)
The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.
The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.
(n.)
The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear.
The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear.
(n.)
Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones.
Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones.
(n.)
Love of music; capacity of enjoying music.
Love of music; capacity of enjoying music.
(n.)
Harmony; an accordant combination of simultaneous tones.
Harmony; an accordant combination of simultaneous tones.
(n.)
A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See Stridulation.
A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See Stridulation.
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Music
Music [from Greek mousike (techne) the art of the Muses] The music of the Greeks did not signify merely the harmony of sounds, but actually imbodied the idea of inner harmony of the spirit, the becoming at one with the spirit of the Muses, so that the soul responded in harmonic rhythm to the beat of universal harmony. Music with the Greeks, therefore, included, besides vocal and instrumental music, choral dancing, rhythmic motions, and various modes of harmony expressed in action, perhaps most particularly that part of education which we should now classify as a striving for harmony in life combined with aesthetic, in contrast with intellectual and physical branches of study and development. It was culture of the essential person, the ego or soul, whereas the other two divisions care for and supply the needs of the mind and of the body.
Music, considered as the essential harmony not only in cosmic but in human life, has fallen from that high estate to being little more than the harmony of sounds, cultivated piecemeal under a number of varieties: one may be an expert instrumentalist without having much harmony in one's soul.
In this modern, limited sense music combines and appeals to the aesthetic and the mathematical. For, while we have the power to be enraptured by harmony and melody, we can also learn how these effects are related to numbers, ratios, vibrations, and all those physical facts studied in acoustics and the laws of modern musical harmony and counterpoint. When these two components of a full musical knowledge are sundered, both branches of study suffer.
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Music, considered as the essential harmony not only in cosmic but in human life, has fallen from that high estate to being little more than the harmony of sounds, cultivated piecemeal under a number of varieties: one may be an expert instrumentalist without having much harmony in one's soul.
In this modern, limited sense music combines and appeals to the aesthetic and the mathematical. For, while we have the power to be enraptured by harmony and melody, we can also learn how these effects are related to numbers, ratios, vibrations, and all those physical facts studied in acoustics and the laws of modern musical harmony and counterpoint. When these two components of a full musical knowledge are sundered, both branches of study suffer.
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