"Music, often an art/entertainment, is a total social fact whose definitions vary according to era and culture," according to Jean Molino. It is often contrasted with noise. 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."-Wikipedia
Perhaps the most common definition for music is that it is a subjective experience. This definition focuses not on the construction but on the experience of music. Rhythm, harmony, and melody are of little importance in this subjective experience. A sound or a sensory form of art that evokes any human emotion can be considered music. The common ground for provocation of such emotions is culture; exposure and teaching of pleasantries and values that varies with location and time.
The objective aspects of music-organization of rhythms, harmonies, melodies, silences, pitches, and so-on-is more clear cut but to universally define music, a universal culture and a universal perception of the objective would have to exist. Perhaps it's the constructivist in me, but if one man's trash is another man's treasure, can't the same be implied when referrin
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