How would you define music?

Question

What is a DEFINITION of music?

Answer 1

Music:

1. sounds that produce effect: sounds, usually produced by instruments or voices, that are arranged or played in order to create an effect

2. art of arranging sounds: the art of arranging or making sounds, usually those of musical instruments or voices, so as to create an effect  

3.  type of music: music of a particular type, place, time, instrument, or style

rock-and-roll music



4.  written music: written notation indicating the pitch, duration, rhythm, and tone of notes to be played  

5.  pleasing sound: a sound or group of sounds that creates a desired effect

the music of the wind in the trees  

Answer 2

There was a famous case of a judge in a pornography case who was asked to define pornography. He said "I don't know how to describe it, but I know it when I see it."

I know it when I hear it.

Answer 3

sounds that cause harmony and disharmony, played on a rythm that is looped into bars?

i don't know i think the definition oculd be more broad than that, but not really specifically definable.

kind of like comedy, i mean comedy is what is funny. so words spoken in some order as to invoke funny emotion in people.

so words are to comedy like sound is too music.

so music is sounds arranged in some manner as to invoke dancing or emotion in people, sound that humans perceive as music.

i don't think there is really any specific rules you can follow to arrive at how to make music, as to why humans perceive music as music. i think every single rule can be broken. this is why computers, though can be programmed to play music, can't make music. just like a computer can quote a joke, but can't invent one.

but definitely it has to do with sound, definitely has to do with harmony and disharmony, definitely has to do with rhythm, after that, music is the manipulation of these things in any way as to make music as perceived by human beings that have the necessary senses to perceive it as so.

Answer 4

silent=music

a feeling.life♥

Answer 5

A way to bleed out your emotions through rhythm and voice that is like poetry for today's modern society.

Answer 6

The technical definition would be a series of beats that make a rhythm.

But to me, music is something more.  It expresses feelings and thoughts.  It has the ability to make a sad movie funny, a simple- brained person to think.  Yes music is about expressing yourself and conveying feelings through instruments and words.

Answer 7

i wouldn't, i would just listen to music.

Answer 8

when your driving in your car listening to some song you've never heard before and all of a sudden, you say, "holy sh*t, I need to get home soon and get on my computer so I can google this song."

Answer 9

The experience of listening.

I define it feelingly.

Answer 10

water for ears

Answer 11

When it's good, music is what feelings sound like.  

Answer 12

A sound that evokes feelings, whether pleasant or not pleasant.