Definition of Music

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Definition of Music

Music

The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear.

Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones.

Harmony; an accordant combination of simultaneous tones.

The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.

Love of music; capacity of enjoying music.

A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See Stridulation.

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Music Quotations

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
Barack Obama

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
Ronald Reagan

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Kahlil Gibran

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
John Lennon

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
John Lennon

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Bill Cosby

Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Music Translations

music in Afrikaans is musiek
music in Dutch is muziek
music in Finnish is musiikki
music in French is musicale, musique
music in German is Music, Musik
music in Italian is musica
music in Norwegian is musikk
music in Swedish is musik

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