Music Definition

The term "music" originated from the Greek word, mousikê, which was a term used to describe any of the arts or sciences that were governed by the Muses. The term "musica universalis" also was referred to by the Greeks, as the order of the universe the way God had created it. This was by measure, number and weight, as they believed.

Music was never originally intended to be a form of sound, but instead the ancient Greeks believed that the the planets and stars revolved around the earth, and they perceived that as a type of music. At that time, music referred only to the way the stars and planets moved so orderly, and how the universe was created with measure, number, and weight. It was all based on math and science.

Of course, the term has evolved over time and can now be best described as an "organized sound", as termed by Edgard Varèse (Goldman 1961, 133). This is a very famous description, and most would agree that it fits the word 'music' perfectly. After all, online games for girls any type of music, no matter what style or age, is just a sound, that has been organized. Some might argue that speech is also organized sound, however simply speaking a language doesn't necessarily mean that the words are organized. In fact, most people hardly think about what they are saying while they talk.

What the term "organized sound" is actually implying, is that if you are banging on pots and pans with no rhythm, just banging in such a way that there is no organization involved, it is not music. If there is a sort of rhythm where you bang on the pots and pans in an any type of organized manner, then it can be considered to be music.