(October 25, 2011 at 9:13 pm)IATIA Wrote: Of course it does. That is just an arbitrary decision on your part to avoid the inconsistency with your theory.
(October 25, 2011 at 9:41 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: Please demonstrate how it would be defined as music then rather than arbitrarily defining any old sound as music. Thanks.
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.
- A musical composition.
- The written or printed score for such a composition.
- Such scores considered as a group: We keep our music in a stack near the piano.
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:
- 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
- vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony
- an agreeable sound : euphony <her voice was music to my ears>
- musical quality <the music of verse>
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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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
