Debate:What Is Music?
What does and doesn't qualify as music?--DoctorMcBell 17:02, 7 September 2008 (EDT)
Music is a composition of sounds that effect the emotions in a heart or thoughts in a mind. --Ṣ₮ёVeN 10:06, 15 October 2008 (EDT)
Music, like beauty, art, truth (small t, not capital T), is in the eye of the beholder. I believe that the "sounds" must be intentionally generated by humans (as opposed to birds or whales).--JeanJacques 10:43, 10 November 2008 (EST)
We all have our preferences as to what sounds and tones, when combined, constitute music. Some people consider rap/hip-hop to be more poetic than musical, and some people consider heavy metal music to be more random noise than musical. These are possibly the two extremes, with everything from jazz to orchestral to church hymns in between, but as JeanJacques stated, it is in the eye (or ear, in this case) of the beholder. WesleySHello! 21:20, 10 November 2008 (EST)
Personally, I believe that music is definitely as "JeanJaques" claims. A very well put answer but I would have to expand upon it and say that although one should not possess musical snobbery, one should not simply accept all types of music: for example, extreme heavy metal - basically white noise to me - is simply sounds which have not required any musical talent or insight to compose in the first place; however, the whole "birds or whales" idea as failing to be music is completely off to my mind. Known as "musique concrete", this form of music can be extremely evoccative and so I would have to disagree on that front. That is simply my viewpoint but as I have said, musical snobbery, although it shouldn't be overused, should be implemented to guide a listener away from creatively void works.
On the subject of rap, I would have to say that much of it is poetry but it can be fantastic lyrics which are written - not all the time - but I do find artists such as Eminem to be real word-smiths. User: Bealecr 14:54, 30 April 2009
