Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound. common elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics and the sonic qualities of timbte and texture. the word derives from Greek of the Muses.

The creation, performance, significance and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions, through improvisational music to aleatoric forms. Music can be divided into genres and subgenres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation and occasionally controversial. Within "the arts", music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art and auditory art.

To many people in many culturres music is an important part of their way of life. Greek philosophers and vertically as as harmonies. connob 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." According to musicologist jean-Jacques Nattiez, : the border between music and noise is always culturally defined-which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass throught the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus. By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be, except that it is sound throught time.

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