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	Definition of music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This definition determines music according to the poetic and the neutral levels (it must be composed sonorities), or more aesthetically, 'the artful or pleasing organization of sound and silence', which determines music according to the esthesic.
		Another commonly held definition of music holds that music must be 'pleasant' (determined by the esthesic level) or 'melodic' (determined by the neutral and/or esthesic levels).
		There is the study of sound and vibration or acoustics, the cognitive study of music, the study of music theory and performance practice or music theory and ethnomusicology and the study of the reception and history of music, generally called musicology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Definition_of_music (3325 words)

	Music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Music is a human activity which involves structured and audible sounds, which is used for artistic or aesthetic, entertainment, or ceremonial purposes.
		The definition of music as sound with particular characteristics is taken as a given by psychoacoustics, and is a common in musicology and performance.
		Music history itself is the (distinct) subfield of musicology and history, which studies the history of music theory.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music (4084 words)

	Epsilon: Ambient Music, Beginnings and Implications, by Chris Melchior
		This use of music creates a mood without obscuring the focus of the movie, and shouldn't be something that you are conscious of much of the time, yet strongly affects your state of being, which is a different use of sound to the concept of music for the concert hall.
		Ambient music is in many ways concerned with one's perception of the world, and of presenting sounds that one might not normally be aware of, or that one might not normally consider as music.
		As ambient music is often listened to not as the foreground of our perception, in a way every time one listens to the same piece of ambient music it is a different piece, as it is heard in a different context of other environmental perceptions.
	music.hyperreal.org /epsilon/info/melchior.html (8853 words)

	Music
		Music as sound: One common definition of music is to label it as "organized sound" or more ornately, "the artful organization of sound and silence".
		Music as a category of perception: Less commonly held is the cognitive definition of music, which argues that music is not merely the sound, or the perception of sound, but a means by which perception, action and memory are organized.
		Music is often preserved in memory and performance only, handed down orally, or aurally ("by ear"), this music often may be considered "traditional" or not considered composed by individuals.
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/m/mu/music_1.html (1999 words)

	What Kind of Music is That? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The short answer is: Western music is generally tonal, based on major or minor scales, using an equal temperament tuning, in an easy-to-recognize meter, with straightforward rhythms, fairly strict rules on harmony and counterpoint, and not much improvisation.
		Tonal music is music in which the chords and harmonies are arranged to give the strong feeling that the piece has a note and chord that are its "home base", so to speak.
		Music that goes even further, and freely uses all the notes of the chromatic scale, but still manages to have a tonal "home", is called chromatic.
	cnx.org /content/m11421/latest (2657 words)

	Definition of music
		This definitions determines music according to the poetic and the neutral levels (it must be composed sonorities), or more aesthetically, 'the artful or pleasing organization of sound and silence', which determines music according to the esthesic.
		What would be accepted as music in Indonesia may be dismissed by many westerners as just "a din." What would today be accepted as music in the west without the blinking of an eye, would have been ridiculed in the 17th century.
		"Music, often an art/entertainment, is a total social fact whose definitions vary according to era and culture," according to Jean Molino.1 It is often contrasted with noise.
	www.mp3.fm /Definition_of_music.htm (2802 words)

	Definition of Music - Objectivism Online Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		That's a valid, objective definition of the field; it tells you what the thing is, not how good or bad it is. Music is a sub-category of art; it's the branch which re-creates reality by employing the sounds produced by the periodic vibrations of a sonorous body, and evokes man's sense-of-life emotions.
		There have been instances when people have claimed to have produced a "new" music that's not music at all because it possesses none of the qualities of music; in those cases it is important to have a definition of what does constitute music so you can say that this is not it.
		By this definition, there is absolutely nothing to exclude talk radio, telegraph messages, spoken conversations, sonor devices, or an endless multiplicity of other organized, sound related phenomena from being classified as music.
	forum.objectivismonline.net /index.php?showtopic=6609 (3212 words)

	Music for Airports liner notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The concept of music designed specifically as a background feature in the environment was pioneered by Muzak Inc. in the fifties, and has since come to be known generically by the term Muzak.
		Whereas conventional background music is produced by stripping away all sense of doubt and uncertainty (and thus all genuine interest) from the music, Ambient Music retains these qualities.
		Ambient Music must be able to accomodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
	music.hyperreal.org /artists/brian_eno/MFA-txt.html (358 words)

	Music
		Some definitions of music place it explicitly within a cultural context by defining music as what people accept as musical.
		John Cage considers duration the primary aspect of music as, being the temporal aspect of music, it is the only aspect common to both "sound" and "silence".
		is the study of the music of non-human animals, or the musical aspects of sounds produced by non-human animals.
	www.mp3.fm /Music.htm (2226 words)

	Music - Crystalinks
		Music is an art, entertainment, or other human activity which involves structured and audible sound, though definitions vary.
		Music can unlock your DNA codings - your genetic race memory as to who you are and your mission here at this time.
		Music can be channeled in the sense of a musician tapping into the energies of a deceased spirit and allowing that spirit to help create music through you.
	www.crystalinks.com /music.html (1518 words)

	Music
		It is his belief that one does not need to have a technical understanding of music to define it, yet he does concede that one should have some idea of their particular society’s concept of music.
		“Music was both valued and distrusted—valued for its ability to arouse, to please, to regulate the soul, and to produce good qualities in its hearers; but, at the same time, it was distrusted for its ability to overstimulate, to drug, to distract, and to lead to excessive behavior.” (p.
		As a listener to music who relates his moods to the music, it was somewhat disconcerting to learn that for centuries music, for the most part, was considered beautiful only when it adhered to preconceived technical qualities.
	w3.gorge.net /stevewads/Steve/Masters/Music/music.htm (1903 words)

	John Winsor: A Definition of Music (And Why It's Needed) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If music is the use of sound to symbolically recreate human biological rhythm, then the qualitative measure of a piece of music is related to the degree of its success in imitating human biological rhythm.
		While it is not necessary that the composer write simple music or music which is in a familiar style, it is necessary to insure that the structure of a piece is aurally coherent.
		The measure of quality in a piece of music is related directly to the degree of subtlety and elegance that the piece brings to bear in the process of symbolically recreating human biological rhythm and in conveying its structure to the listener.
	home.att.net /~j-winsor/jhw_art1.html (1468 words)

	Music therapy definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
		Music therapy: The use of music in therapy; the therapeutic use of music.
		There are many different definitions of music therapy ranging from the trivial (a form of distraction that uses music as an aid to relaxation) to the lofty (the prescribed use of music to restore, maintain, and improve emotional, physical, physiological, and spiritual health and well-being).
		Music therapy facilitates the creative process of moving toward wholeness in the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual self in areas such as: independence, freedom to change, adaptability, balance and integration.
	www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=25789 (336 words)

	Music
		Imposing a single definition on all of the world’s music is difficult because people’s opinions differ about what music is and what is musical.
		Many scholars of “world music” study behaviors and sounds that are not considered to be “music” by the people who make it—the chanting of the Koran, for instance.
		Music has much in common with language, and the two are almost inseparable as ingredients in popular song, opera, and other musical forms.
	chnm.gmu.edu /worldhistorysources/unpacking/musicwhatmakes.html (658 words)

	Amazon.ca: Definition Of A Band: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Definition of a Band" is truly a work of art...from the dynamic Intro with Chris "Daddy" Dave's and Stokley's incomparable drumming to the very end.
		They are definitely masters at their craft and deserve so much more recognition, praise and awards...all in due time.
		If you're looking a CD that has wonderfully profound lyrics, music with substance and authenticity, ballads that rock and a lead singer with a phenomenal voice, then I highly recommend this CD (which is my favorite...although I own all of their other CDs and love them as well).
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000012T3 (257 words)

	KPBS - Classical Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Now that KPBS is offering classical music as part of its daily schedule, you might be interested what this music is all about.
		These developments led to a looser definition of classical music as fine art music from medieval times to the present day.
		Toward the end of the century, this definition expanded to include classical forms beyond the western tradition.
	www.kpbs.org /Radio/TemplateDirector.php?id=19 (224 words)

	Definition of Music no. 112037 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the plant kingdom, music is the flower as consciousness.
		This is not to say that music is an expression of consciousness, or a metaphor for consciousness.
		I do not mean to limit consciousness and the awareness thereof to that of a single, distinct entity: I mean to implicate the hypothetical universal consciousness in any of its hypothetical guises, and also manifestations and subsets therefrom.
	www.plonsey.com /plonsey/kingdoms/flavour.html (96 words)

	Musical Times: Music: a practical definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One of the great faux pas of music lexicography was the omission of an article on 'Music', in the first edition of the New Grove dictionary of music and musicians - and every earlier Grove!1 That was only natural, since few who commit their love and lives to music take the trouble to define it.
		He declares: 'Music [in a given culture] is whatever people say it is.'2 His permissiveness is excessive.
		Among some peoples, music is inseparably associated with some event, activity, or behaviour; it has no real existence apart from those associations.3 They do not regard music as a completely distinct activity; however, that is an internal matter for them; it is simply their convention.4
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3870/is_200504/ai_n13510116 (444 words)

	MusicXML Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		We have tried to learn from the mistakes of past music notation interchange efforts by 1) basing the format on the two strongest academic formats available, MuseData and Humdrum, and 2) testing the format by writing usable software from the beginning of the development process.
		A set of 17 musical examples is available in XML and graphic formats.
		MusicXML in Practice: Issues in Translation and Analysis was presented at the MAX 2002 conference on Musical Applications Using XML (September 2002).
	www.recordare.com /xml.html (888 words)

	MonsterMusic
		High Definition Surround sound lets you experience the music as if you were there, whether in the "Front Row" or "On Stage" in the middle of the band.
		Ready to download to your computer or portable music player, are digital music files encoded directly from the studio master at the highest resolution possible.
		Picture, Audio, and digital music files have been certified with the highest standards by THX for performance and quality.
	www.monstermusic.com (154 words)

	Gospel Music Associations's new definition for Gospel music
		In 1998, because of the obvious pseudo-Christian lyrics flooding the Contemporary Christian Music (CCM), the Gospel Music Association (GMA), for the first time in their 30-year history, created lyrics criteria for the eligibility of Dove Awards.
		The PURPOSE of Christian music is to PRAISE the Lord.
		Gospel music is "praise" and "worship" to the Lord!
	www.av1611.org /crock/gmalyrics2.html (2817 words)

	Definition of Music Narrative @ LocalColorArt.com (Local Color Art) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	Roman'
		In quick description I'm musician and composer who have great joy of creating music.
		I don't know if there is any definition of modern music for me all types of music are modern.
		Most fascinating for me is to create "world music" I always try to incorporate original
	www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/parton/620/roman.html (175 words)

	Music Player definition (Phone Scoop)
		The phone includes memory storage for MP3, AAC or similar music files, and software for playing that music.
		Generally, music can be downloaded into the phone from a computer and played back later through a headset attached to the phone.
		Newer phones with High-Speed Data may support downloading music directly over the mobile network.
	www.phonescoop.com /glossary/term.php?fid=27 (102 words)

	Granddaddy DJ's High Definition Dance Music #021 - guest Jussi Soro - DI Forums Board
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