0 a pattern of sounds made by musical instruments, voices, or computers, or a combination of these, intended to give pleasure to people listening to it: --
Can you read music?
music lessons
I just like making music (= playing an instrument or singing).
1 a pattern of sounds made by instruments or by singing or by a combination of both, or the written symbols representing these sounds: --
Furthermore, there is obviously a tendency to begin the more 'official' historiography of marginal musics with more ephemeral media than the printed word.
The first is the way of the ambitious "singing soul for music's sake".
I should add that music's artificiality is a great asset here.
Schools with large representations of different ethnic groups often cannot address the musics of each adequately.
The composer invites a variety of performers of western and non-western instruments to participate in her work, making the music's message a universal one.
I fell under this music's spell many years ago and have long thought that this movement in particular should be much better known.
Thus, even when the orchestra is involved in more turbulent episodes, it is the vocal element which is largely responsible for the music's dramatic content.
The book is part of a new generation of ethnomusicological research which emphasises the importance of a historical perspective in the study of popular musics.
