సంగీతం: కూర్పుల మధ్య తేడాలు

సంగీతం యొక్క ప్రాథమిక లక్షణాలు శృతి, [[రాగం]], [[తాళం]] (Rhythm), పల్లవి మొదలైన శబ్ద లక్షణాలు. మ్యూజిక్ అనే పదం [[గ్రీకు భాష]] ''μουσική'' (''mousike''), "(art) of the [[Muses]]" నుండి వచ్చింది.<ref>[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2368891 Mousike, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', at Perseus]</ref>

 

 

To people in many cultures, music is inextricably intertwined into their way of life. [[Greek philosophy|Greek philosophers]] 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 [[John Cage]] thought that any sound can be music, saying, for example, "There is no [[noise]], only sound."<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE1DB1E3BF930A2575BC0A964958260 John Cage, 79, a Minimalist Enchanted With Sound, Dies]</ref> 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 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, except that it is 'sound through time'."<ref>Nattiez 1990: 47-8, 55</ref>