Process Essay: What Is Music?

Music has been around for centuries. Nobody is sure how it even sounded when man had first invented it. There are early traces of some instruments, but they are nothing like what you would see today. There are a number of differences in music today than in the past. So that raises the question. What is music? Many people may have many different answers. Some people may say it is just a bunch of instruments playing together on stage, but does it even have to be that? Music can have absolutely no sound, but still be considered music. So what makes music “music?” I believe that music is any sort of sound whether they are organized, or unorganized that come together that make the listener feel something in some sort of way. These sounds do not even have to mean anything at all. The sounds do not have to have any sort of rhythm or pitch either. However there is a line between a performance art and music. Some things people like to call music I do not. A good example of something I would not call music is a song by John Cage. John Cage’s song titled “4’33” is a song where the person playing plays nothing at all. To Cage the music during this song would be the silence in the audience, and the way people …show more content…
My opinion of music has certainly changed over the course of this last semester. Before this semester I thought that some modern music could not get weirder. I was shown that it could, and this had totally changed my view of what music truly is. Music is any sort of sound that is meant to be produced intentionally by the musician. The sound produced does not have to be organized at all to be classified as music. Just like organization music does not need to have any sort of meaning to it. Music is meant to be enjoyed by people, and therefore the musician’s goal is to reach out to some audience and appeal to them. Rhythm and pitch do not matter in the process of making music. Music is purely just for