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Codeon's Homepage http://www.zorpia.com/Codeon Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:05 EST Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:05 EST Zorpia.com Music http://www.zorpia.com/Codeon/journal/1902520 Music is an <a title="Art" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art">art</a> form whose <a title="Media (arts)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_(arts)">medium</a> is <a title="Sound" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound">sound</a> organized in <a title="Time" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time">time</a>. Common elements of music are <a title="Pitch (music)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_(music)">pitch</a> (which governs <a title="Melody" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody">melody</a> and <a title="Harmony" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony">harmony</a>), <a title="Rhythm" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm">rhythm</a> (and its associated concepts <a title="Tempo" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempo">tempo</a>, <a title="Meter (music)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter_(music)">meter</a>, and <a title="Articulation (music)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articulation_(music)">articulation</a>), <a title="Dynamics (music)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamics_(music)">dynamics</a>, and the sonic qualities of <a title="Timbre" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbre">timbre</a> and <a title="Texture (music)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_(music)">texture</a>. The word derives from <a title="Greek language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language">Greek</a> Î¼Î¿Ï…ÏƒÎ¹ÎºÎ® (mousike), "(art) of the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Muses" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muses">Muses</a>".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music#cite_note-0">[1]</a> The creation, <a title="Performance" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance">performance</a>, significance, and even the <a title="Definition of music" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_music">definition of music</a> vary according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions (and their recreation in performance), through improvisational music to <a class="mw-redirect" title="Aleatory" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleatory">aleatoric</a> forms. Music can be divided into <a title="Genre" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genre">genres</a> and <a title="Genre" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genre#subgenre">subgenres</a>, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation, and occasionally controversial. Within "<a title="The arts" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_arts">the arts</a>", music may be classified as a <a title="Performing arts" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performing_arts">performing art</a>, a <a title="Fine art" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_art">fine art</a>, and auditory art. To people in many cultures, music is inextricably intertwined into their way of life. <a title="Greek philosophy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_philosophy">Greek philosophers</a> 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 is music to my ears" point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to. However, 20th-century composer <a title="John Cage" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage">John Cage</a> thought that any sound can be music, saying, for example, "There is no <a title="Noise" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise">noise</a>, only sound."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music#cite_note-1">[2]</a> According to musicologist <a title="Jean-Jacques Nattiez" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Nattiez">Jean-Jacques Nattiez</a>, "the border between music and noise is always culturally definedâ€”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.â€¦ By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be, except that it is 'sound through time'."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music#cite_note-2">[3]</a> Music http://www.zorpia.com/Codeon/journal/1902520 Wed, 06 May 2009 10:06 EST