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Given its widest meaning, music is any arrangement of sounds, deliberate or otherwise, which serves an artistic or entertaining purpose. The earliest forms of music were vocal, typically chant?ing. By varying the pitch? of consecutive sounds this early music came upon the first notions of melody?. From there came the first notion of scales?, notes? which sound pleasing (in some sense) when played sequentially.

[Interesting theory. Where did it come from? What archaelogical evidence that I have read about seems to indicate that [percussive music]? dates back at least to the last Ice Age.--buzco]

It is interesting to note that although the scales which arose in the various [musical tradition]?s of the world are often very different, the frequency of the notes in a given scale are usually related by some simple [mathematical law]?. For instance, consider the math of Western music scales. The early music of Greek antiquity further developed the scales to the notion of modes, where each mode is the usual diatonic scale but with a different starting note. Modes would come back into favour some time later in the development of jazz.

Closely related to melody, but historically not developed until much later, is that of harmony?. Harmony concerns the sound made by two different notes played simultaneously, whether on a single instrument such as a guitar or piano or the intersection of two or more [musical line]?s on distinct instruments, such as in a fugue.

For much of the history of western classical music the conventions and rules of harmony were strictly enforced, often by the controlling influence of the Church?, whilst folk music and non-Western music also developed often widely different notions of harmony.

The following are music-related topics:

- musical instrument

- [musical genre]?s:

- Popular Music

- Rock and roll
  - punk rock
  - [heavy metal]?
  - death metal
  - grindcore?

- Crossover Music

- [African American music]?

- Blues -- Jazz -- Gospel? -- Soul? -- Disco -- -- Funk -- Reggae -- Rap/Hip hop -- freestyle music --samba?

- Electronic music
  - Drum and Bass -- Trip hop -- House -- Trance? -- Techno -- Tech-Step? -- Garage? -- Hardcore? -- Breakbeat?

- new wave music

- traditional music -- folk music
  - Country music -- Celtic music -- Irish traditional music -- [Anglo-Indian music]? -- [Arabic music]? -- [Far Eastern music]? -- [African music]? -- Indian Music

- Classical Music

- Computer Generated Music

[Western Art Music]?: [Medieval Music]? -- [Renaissance Music]? -- Baroque Music -- Classical Music -- [Romantic music]? -- [Modern music]? -- [Contemporary music]?

[Musical Composers]?: Johann Sebastian Bach -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- [Gustav Mahler]? -- [Jean Sibelius]? -- [[Piotr Tchaikovsky]] -- Antonio Vivaldi -- Richard Wagner -- [Maurice Ravel]? -- [George Bizet]? -- [Giuseppe Verdi]? -- Gioacchino Rossini -- [Giacomo Puccini]? -- Matteo Carcassi -- Sergei Prokofiev -- Niccolo Paganini

Musicology?: definition of music -- Counter Point -- MusicalTheory

Miscellaneous: [musical notation]? -- learning music by ear -- harmonic accompaniment -- melody? -- dance music -- [Mexican Corridos]? -- Music critics

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