Music is an art form that the media is the voice and silence. Common elements are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and sonic timbre and texture quality. The word derives from Greek μουσική (mousike Greece; “the art of the muses”).
The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to the social and cultural context. The music ranges from highly organized composition (and their recreation in performance), through improvisational music of aleatoric forms. Music can be divided into genres and gospel, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation, and occasionally controversial. In “the arts”, music can be classified as a performing art, art, and auditory art. There is a strong connection between music and mathematics.
For many people in many cultures, music is an important part of their way of life. Philosophers of ancient Greece and India defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertical harmonies. Common sayings such as “harmony” and “it’s music to my ears” point into the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen. However, 20th century composer, John Cage thought that sound can be music, saying, for example, “there is no noise, only sound.”Musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez summarizes the relativist, post-modern perspective: “the border between music and noise is always culturally defined — 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 … By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be. “