Calculus, Logic, Music and the Human Brain

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mu•sic (myzk) n.

1. The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre.
2. Vocal or instrumental sounds possessing a degree of melody, harmony, or rhythm.
3.

1. A musical composition.
   
2. The written or printed score for such a composition.
   
3. Such scores considered as a group: We keep our music in a stack near the piano.

4. A musical accompaniment.
5. A particular category or kind of music.
6. An aesthetically pleasing or harmonious sound or combination of sounds: the music of the wind in the pines.


mu•sic noun, often attributive \ˈmyü-zik\

1:

1. the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity
   
2. vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony

2:

1. an agreeable sound : euphony <her voice was music to my ears>
   
2. musical quality <the music of verse>

3: a musical accompaniment <a play set to music>
4: the score of a musical composition set down on paper
5: a distinctive type or category of music <there is a music for everybody — Eric Salzman>

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Well if you are using that definition then you’d have to say that the rain hitting my roof is producing music. That hardly seems like a proper comparison to human created music.

As much as the drum solo in "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" or the drum solo in Take Five" by Dave Brubeck, but that is not what either of us mean.

A song bird sings a tune that is rhythmic and musical. It possible to put a bird song down on paper as sheet music and play it with different instruments. Is it Beethoven? No, but it follows the rules of rhythm and progression. This shows the capability of music in the genes. Hell, dinosaurs may have whistled tunes.

Anyway, the capability of music in the genes along with the higher intellect of man, presents us with the ability to create abstract music, i.e., beyond what is in our genes or what we hear. The first music was probably percussion (piano and harpsichord excluded) and vocal imitations of the song birds.

I fail to see why you cannot appreciate the music birds present us with and accept it as such, unless you are just stuck in argument mode, refusing to give in no matter what. Facts and empirical data be damned, full speed ahead. (and we have not yet touched on whales which create a unique song every year)